From the Archive
Allegiances
By Noah Warren
Chartreuse, the Color of Elixirs, Flappers, and Alternate Realities
By Katy KelleherLet me tell you about a color that began as a fabled drink. It tasted harsh and punishing, like medicine. It began as a mythic elixir.
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Hue's Hue
Poetry Rx
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.
Poetry Rx
One Missing Piece
By Jill TalbotReturns can betray our memory and reveal something new, a different image, a disappointment, a recital of disappearances.
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First Person
Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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The Legibility of Fausto Reinaga
By Mark GoodaleIn 1957, in a strange twist of political and historical fate, in front of Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig, Fausto Reinaga, the future modern prophet of Indian revolution, reaffirmed his destiny.
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Literary Cities
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Public Bar T.V.
By Ted HughesThat glass, bubble-bodied, dream-fetus of shadow-pallor, / Which will never enter life, / Looms like the negative / Of a clumsy, weary and ageing man’s failure.
From the Archive, Issue 40
Poetry
Psychic Bitters
By John AshberyDid he describe the blue stripe again, / unelected governor? / And from trees to hospitals, one story / perfectly formed suddenly entered into eternal rest.
