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By Alec Niedenthal“Comedy was a theatrical form Paul had never pursued; he had always been more serious, a tragedian.”
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By D. Graham Burnett“We ‘are’ our attention; but when we are attentive, we aren’t ‘there’—at least not for others. And perhaps not even for ourselves.”
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By Elias Rodriques“It must have burned him up to hear Waldy brag to the girl who kicked his tooth out.”
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Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf
By Frances LindemannIn Woolf’s final, unfinished manuscript, she employs a “methodology of disorder” that enables “that state of mind in which it seems possible to us to write the book, not to read it.”
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By Millicent Borges Accardi“They are like men because they are isolated / yet stand in the rain, surrounded by mounds / of dirt and asphalt to catch spillover—”
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By Alice Oswald“The two who stood there / and the two who saw them said / not what they said”
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Works on Paper
By Joan JonasThis portfolio, curated by Jonas for the Review, collects drawings of her dogs, made across the past fifty years.
