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Alice Notley’s Disobedience

The shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry
Tausif Noor
June 10, 2024
Essays

Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole
June 10, 2024
Books

Poetically Speaking

A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue
Brian Dillon
June 10, 2024
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Books

On Nine Recent Collections

Poetry in review
Stephanie Burt
April 1, 2019
Essays

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
Percival Everett
June 12, 2023
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Books

Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
October 1, 2018
An image of an old coin.
Essays

The Virtues and Vices of Speech

On truthfulness, deception, flattery, and more
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
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G. W. Pigman III
July 1, 2019
Books

The Consolations of Failure

Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
June 12, 2023
Susan Sontag, New York, February 2, 1978. Photograph by Richard Avedon. ©The Richard Avedon Foundation.
Books

Furious Permissions

For Susan Sontag, style was nourishment
Brian Dillon
January 1, 2020
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Books

Finding Proust’s Duchess

Clear-sighted literary commentary, and a guilty-pleasure read
Hollie Harder
July 1, 2018