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Practicing
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Keeping Tabs on the ’Loids
By Sylvie McNamaraThis week, as the media explored the unholy alliance between politics and sensationalist right-wing journalism, I took it on as my civic responsibility to consume bottom-of-the-barrel tabloids. On Wednesday, the former Playboy model Karen McDougal …
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Wrinkles
By Erica JongMy friends are tired. / The ones who are married are tired / of being married. / The ones who are single are tired / of being single.
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Poetry
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Twenty Years Later: On Massive Attack and ‘Mezzanine’
By Michael A. GonzalesIn 1998, when I was a writer for Vibe magazine (which was the leading black culture journal), I went to London to interview the trip-hop kings Massive Attack. They were preparing to release their third album, the beautifully complex and brooding Me…
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This Once
By John Ashbery. . . or somebody’s going to get hurt. / For my sake, however, keep pealing to a minimum. / We’ll need the firewood you can pick up on the shore / of that lake.
From the Archive, Issue 216
Poetry
Some Notes on Madame Bovary
By Lydia DavisNot long ago, I was chatting with an older friend who is a retired engineer and also something of a writer, but not of fiction. When he heard that I had just finished a translation of Madame Bovary, he said something like, “But Madame Bovary has already been translated. Why does there need to be another translation?”
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Letters & Essays
Life Death and Other Dreams
By James SchuylerThey lived like Shakers, with a slight difference: they didn’t leave anything out, and they didn’t let anyone in.
