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Aeternitas
By Szilárd Borbély
The Melancholy of the Hedgehog
By Aysegul SavasOn the sweet sadness of Turkish gatherings and Soviet cartoons. When I was eight and my brother nine years old, we moved from Ankara to London where we awaited clearance for our father’s work in Copenhagen. Our parents were both thirty-three, w…
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Children
By Terry CastleI've been collecting anonymous photographs for more than two decades now and probably own a thousand or so, in all kind of formats. Nineteenth-century tintypes and cyanotypes, cabinet cards and cartes de visite, turn-of-the-century RPPCs (Real Photo Postcards), disaster pix, police mugshots and Bertillon cards, photo-booth strips, deaccessioned newspaper photos (especially ones with white crop marks), old prom photos, not to mention a recently acquired batch of ratty,
From the Archive, Issue 198
Art & Photography
Cooking with Leonora Carrington
By Valerie StiversIn Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words series, she cooks up recipes drawn from the works of various writers. Surrealism today is mostly a chapter in art history, so it’s difficult to appreciate the wildness and power it once had, or to imagine (or…
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Salon
By Anne Carsonwhat shape should I file my nails I wonder / / follow shape of moon usually best / / once I did them square / / lean forward please / / big mistake / / in basin please
From the Archive, Issue 215
Poetry
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Poetry Rx: I Loved My Friend
By Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Claire Schwartz is on the line. Dear Poets, What do…
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A Story
By Czeslaw MiloszNow I will tell Meader’s story; I have a moral in view.He was pestered by a Grizzly so bold and maliciousThat he used to snatch caribou meat from the eaves of the cabin.
From the Archive, Issue 87
Poetry
Nudes
By Chuck CloseChuck Close is best known for painting faces—monumental close-ups so detailed that they seem, at first glance, to leave nothing to the imagination. Yet his first iconic painting, Big Self-Portrait (1967–68)
From the Archive, Issue 207
Art & Photography
A Note on the Type
By Ray RussellThe text of this book was set, via computer-driven cathode ray tube, in a film version of 12 point Sophonisba, a typeface designed by A(rthur) A(delbert) Rawling for the Bald Eagle Linotype Company of Evanston, Illinois.
