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By Dustin IllingworthReplete with moments of courtship, seduction, devotion, and, eventually, betrayal, Davenport and Kenner's letters, with their associative flair and polymathic plasticity, create a document unlike any other.
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By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
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Leonard Michaels Was a Cat Person
By Sigrid NunezSigrid Nunez on Leonard Michaels’s ode to all things feline, ‘A Cat.’
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By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
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Redux: Floating Out Like the Goodyear Blimp
By The Paris ReviewThis week, you bring you Kurt Vonnegut’s 1977 Art of Fiction interview, where he recounts his time in the military; M. F. Beal’s story “Veterans”; and Peter Everwine’s poem “To My Father's Ghost.”
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Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
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The Flamethrowers
By Rachel KushnerThe first image I pinned up to spark inspiration for what would eventually be my novel The Flamethrowers was of a woman with tape over her mouth. She floated above my desk with a grave, almost murderous look, war paint on her cheeks, blonde braids framing her face, the braids a frolicsome countertone to her intensity.
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Swimming in Cambodia
By Jan BaraczOn a mountaintop in the year 802, the Khmer monarch Jayavarman II proclaimed himself a god and established the kingdom of Cambodia, initiating the dynasties that would—over the next four centuries—create the vast temple complexes of Angkor before abandoning them and vanishing.
