Deep Cuts
Nicholas Russell
Dec 1 2021
My lolo and I were going through old photographs when I came across an image of him from after he graduated from medical school. Through the grain of the image, under the ...
Selections from The Field
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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, ...
Apr 1, 2020
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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Everything Under the Sun
Sophie Haigney
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The exhibition began, like the fall of mankind did, with an apple. Or rather, it began with a glut of photographs of apples: red apples, green apples, yellow apples, sliced ...
Forget-Me-Not
Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo
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There’s a phrase from a Borges poem that I can’t get out of my head. It’s short, just four spare words, less than a line, scavenged from its original place in the poem and ...
The Last Black Stage
Harmony Holiday
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I’m submerged in the heap of abandoned ruins we call our archives again, digging for jettisoned aspects Black life. So much of Black people’s activity on earth has been singed ...
