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A curious disorientation
Lydia Davis
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Miranda July

The novelist on the difference between emotional honesty and autobiography
Meghan O’Rourke
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The Polycrisis

Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?
Brandy Jensen
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Changing My Mind

On sources, revision, and order
Lydia Davis
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Essays

Loaf or Hot-Water Bottle

Closely Translating Proust
Lydia Davis

Allyship risks appropriating the cause of an oppressed people and drowning out the very voices it seeks to defend.

Feisal G. Mohamed Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

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A Negro Nation

W. E. B. Du Bois
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The Mirror

Haruki Murakami
translated by Philip Gabriel
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Alice Munro

The short-story writer's prismatic final collection
Jane Mendelsohn
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Some Other, Better Otto

Deborah Eisenberg
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The White Umbrella

Gish Jen

Our Spring 2024 Issue

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Angel Jacks

Brian Blanchfield
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Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
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Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey
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Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

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Interviews

Rachel Cusk

The novelist on the “feminine non-state of non-being”
Merve Emre
Poetry

In Utero and After

Catherine Barnett
Poetry

Nicholson Baker and I

Catherine Barnett
Fiction

Rosaura at Dawn

Daniel Saldaña París
translated by Christina MacSweeney
Poetry

Catechumen

Kéchi Nne Nomu
Poetry

Litany for a Prolonged Dream

Joyce Mansour
translated by C. Francis Fisher
Poetry

The Search

Catherine Barnett
Poetry

Banquo’s Ghost in Paterson

Martín Espada
Poetry

Memories Don’t Live Like People Do

Donauta Watson
A Closer Look

Candy Darling’s “Newspaper” Centerfold

Encountering the infamous collage of a downtown legend
Lucy Sante
A Closer Look

Langston Hughes's "China"

Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation
Selina Lai-Henderson
A Closer Look

Ed Ruscha's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip"

Why the artists' book is a reminder of freedom
Jim Lewis