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The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis
Black-and-white illustration of a therapy couch
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The Future of Nationalism

Four writers dissect its complex past—and its uncertain path forward
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Is This Real?

Five writers on the line between fact and fiction

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The Waste Land at 100

Selections from the archives
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Ownership: An Introduction

Nine writers on the complexities of property
Eula Biss
Essays

The Black Shape Slumped in a Chair

Kerry James Marshall and the Taliesin murders
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Essays

More Joy and Less Cool

What it means to be a skater
José Vadi
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Resisting Category

A folio of Spanish-language fiction in translation
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Poems on the Divine

Nine poets at the edge of the signifiable
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The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
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Hidden Words

Searching for meaning in a rubber stamp
Uljana Wolf
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The Weight of Memory

Honoring my dear friend
Yong Soon Min
Folios

Dictee at Forty

The life and legacy of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing
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Criticism and Truth

Three scholars respond to Jonathan Kramnick's book

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LSD

Are hallucinations real?
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Michael Crichton

Is celebrity real?
Joanna Radin
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Paul

Is the self real?
Sheila Heti
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Storytelling

Is narrative real?
Mona Oraby
March 11, 2025
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A Room in Dumb Bitchville

Emily Skillings
December 10, 2024
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A Story About Power

Paisley Rekdal
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Cento for the Night I Tried Stand-Up

Sasha Debevec-McKenney
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Everything Always Going Away

Andrew Motion
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My Heart and the Nonsense

John Okrent
December 10, 2024
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A Lost Future for the Middle East

Religious pluralism was a possibility after the Ottoman Empire. European colonialism changed that.
Ussama Makdisi
October 22, 2024