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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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A Diagram of My Life
GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.
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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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Love Still Has Something of the Sea
a walk with Thomas Mann . . . .
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Making of a Poem: Hua Xi on “Toilet”
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Hua Xi’s poem “Toilet” appears in the new Winter issue of the Review, no. 250. How did this ...
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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." ...
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Portfolio: Margaret Finds a Box
In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...
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The True Story of Mortar and Pestle
begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...