Bookselling in the End Times…Again
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PRINT IS DEAD In his late-fifteenth-century woodcut of a danse macabre, Matthias Huss depicts Death striding into a printer’s shop to remind a bookseller and his colleagues ...
Selected Fields
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Unfortunately, I Like It Too
Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, published in 2017, has been one of the great literary success stories of the Brexit and Trump eras, especially among readers who, ...
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I Celebrate Myself, and Erase Myself
In its broadest sense, a temple is a place devoted to a specific and elevated purpose, one not necessarily limited to the spiritual. Maybe it’s fair to say that what I’ve ...
Jun 1, 2020
Art by Women About Women Making Art About Women
T he first lesbian movie I loved was Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson’s sumptuous 1994 film starring a young Kate Winslet as a dangerously charismatic schoolgirl who ...
Oct 1, 2020
Bookselling in the End Times…Again
PRINT IS DEAD In his late-fifteenth-century woodcut of a danse macabre, Matthias Huss depicts Death striding into a printer’s shop to remind a bookseller and his colleagues ...
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One Sunday in February 2019, during my first winter in Philadelphia, an unusual fog descended over my neighborhood. The day was mild, and a haze hung over the buildings; it ...
Guest Critic: Roberto Lovato
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Our intersecting crises—COVID-19, the struggle for racial justice sparked by the murder of George Floyd, mass unemployment, and, most important, the crisis of political ...
Dismantle the Platform
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The video begins quietly, with a single quotation floating on a black background: “While my company and the museum have distinct missions,” it reads, “both are important ...
Art by Women About Women Making Art About Women
Melissa Febos
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T he first lesbian movie I loved was Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson’s sumptuous 1994 film starring a young Kate Winslet as a dangerously charismatic schoolgirl who ...
Guest Critic: David L. Ulin
David L. Ulin
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Anne Frank. No, that’s not true, exactly: I always think a lot about Anne Frank. In this moment, though, with the world in the midst of ...
Doubled Knowledge
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I often think of translation as a kind of empathy that unfolds in the space between author, translator, and reader. Successfully bringing a piece of writing from one language ...
I Celebrate Myself, and Erase Myself
Sarah Rose Sharp
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In its broadest sense, a temple is a place devoted to a specific and elevated purpose, one not necessarily limited to the spiritual. Maybe it’s fair to say that what I’ve ...
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Ismail Muhammad
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I’ve had to learn how to grieve in the last year. These are some of the things that I’ve glommed onto that have made me feel less lonely in that work. Ghosteen Nick Cave and ...
