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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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Battling Pictures, Equality, Inequality, and Vivien Leigh
Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy ...
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The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
Tom Fitzharris and Edward Gorey met one afternoon in 1974 when Fitzharris, long a fan of Gorey’s books and illustrations, bumped into him outside of the Town Hall, the performance space in Midtown ...
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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 Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
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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 ...
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W.S. Merwin on Sir Thomas Wyatt
And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...
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The Daily
Tom Fitzharris and Edward Gorey met one afternoon in 1974 when Fitzharris, long a fan of Gorey’s books and illustrations, bumped into him outside of the Town Hall, the performance space in Midtown ...