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Steins

Here are the things you hear most often when you announce plans to marry someone who happens to have the same last name:That’s convenient!Guess you won’t ...

July 23, 2015 03:50 PM

Mannerism

René Ricard in a photo by Allen Ginsberg.“Mannerism,” a poem by René Ricard from our Summer 1970 issue. Ricard was born on this day in 1946; he died last ...

July 23, 2015 02:44 PM

The Library of Babel as Seen from Within

Reproducing Borges’s imaginary library online.Since I first read it in a high school Spanish class, I’ve been fascinated by the theory of language implicit ...

July 23, 2015 12:00 PM

Got Those Travel-writing Blues, and Other News

From a poster for the 1913 World Esperanto Congress.Explaining the Internet’s Joan Didion obsession is a tricky thing: “In the crossover of feminism, ...

July 23, 2015 08:52 AM

Beauty

From a 1960s Avon ad.There are certain unpleasant life experiences that are not palliated by the fact that you know that they’re meaningless. I am speaking ...

July 22, 2015 06:55 PM

Excuse Me!?! … I’m Looking for the “Fountain of Youth”

Michael Smith, Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: Entrance, 2012, C-print, 22 1/2" x 32 1/2"Head to St. Augustine, Florida, north of the Mission ...

July 22, 2015 03:45 PM