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Making of a Poem: Emily Osborne on “Cruel Loss of Sons”
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...
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The Tickling of the Bulls: A Rodeo at Madison Square Garden
The cowboys bowed their heads—some wept—as the announcer beseeched God to keep them safe. John Crimber, the nineteen-year-old ...
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The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the ...
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A Diagram of My Life
GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.
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Making of a Poem: Hua Xi on “Toilet”
I want to live a beautiful life but I can’t help but notice there is something fundamentally disgusting about it all.” ...
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Love Still Has Something of the Sea
a walk with Thomas Mann . . . .
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Battling Pictures, Equality, Inequality, and Vivien Leigh
Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often, we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that ...
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The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...