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Goodbye, Columbus
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Poem for Merwin
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Poetry Rx
By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
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The Genius of Terry Southern
By David L. UlinGiven that we’re living in a Terry Southern novel, perhaps there’s no better time than now to revisit his trenchant, sidesplitting work.
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Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer From Beyond the Grave
By Matt LevinEvery few months, it seems, there is a Singer dispatch from beyond the grave, another label-less bottle floating in on the tide. Reading his bibliography, one would never guess he has been dead nearly three decades.
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Eat Your Words
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Edie Sedgwick: A Reminiscence
By Bobby AndersonI met Margouleff just after I got out of the hospital where J was seriously ill with hepatitis and told every day that I wasn’t going to make it, and was all prepared to die. I came out all traumatized. Very strange. Margouleff came along. I was so weak already from exhaustion I was ready to fall down in the street. I had lost my apartment and everything in it. He walked up to me and he said, “Hello, you big tomato.” I said, “Get the hell out of here. Leave me alone, you creep.” He could see t…
From the Archive, Issue 78
Letters & Essays
This Configuration
By John AshberyThis movie deals with the epidemic of the way we live now. / What an inane card player. And the age may support it. / Each time the rumble of the age / Is an anthill in the distance.
