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Crystal Palace
By Amie Barrodale“They were in the smaller, formal mess—far enough off the main grid that you could forget for a second that you were living at the end of eight miles of tunnels.”
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Catching up with Geoff Dyer
By Sophie Haigney“What makes things interesting to the reader? It depends on the quality of writing and perception—which, I suppose, is what people say when they’re banging on about Proust!”
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
By Miriam Toews“Failure is the story, but the story itself is also failure.”
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Fiction
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“Everything is Enchanted”: Andy Kaufman and Paul Reubens
By Charlie Fox“It’s a good time to investigate the paradoxes and special strangeness of Andy Kaufman and Paul Reubens, oddly alike in some ways and so different in others. Two fascinating new documentaries try to puzzle out the stories of these two much-missed…
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The War Is Over
By Nasser Rabah“The war is over. / The builders come: / they build doors with archways; the ceilings are high”
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Poetry
Three World Tours!
By Lady Shalamar Montague“The illustrations collected here depict some of the unverifiable experiences that Montague later catalogued in a handwritten autobiography.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 251
Art & Photography
Downtown (Altar)
By Agosto Machado“After moving to Greenwich Village in the late fifties, Machado became a fixture of the queer theater, art, and activist movements then emerging in downtown New York.”
