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Facades
By David Szalay“He feels almost like he’s in mourning. For months, more than a year, in fact, the hotel idea has been the main thing in his life.”
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Fiction
The House with the Mezzanine
By Dan Bevacqua“I was supposed to middle-man these people into a situation of potential annoyance—if not harassment? Me? The poor kid from Jersey?”
In the Current Issue, Issue 255
Fiction
Between Wild West and Far East
By Nastassja Martin“Dasho’s fine brown face, his dark eyes and long black hair, are haloed by the white glow of the sphere behind him. ‘Do you think they’re like us? That they live like us?’”
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ART 149: Music for Visual Thinking
By Cauleen SmithThis portfolio renders a selection of the vinyl records Smith plays to begin each session of the undergraduate studio course she teaches at UCLA.
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Art & Photography
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Among the Antigones
By Rhoda Feng“Virginia Woolf once wrote that Electra, another famous Sophocles ingenue, ‘stands before us like a figure so tightly bound that she can only move an inch this way, an inch that.’ And yet contemporary theater seems to see Antigone as a characte…
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GemStone
By Tao Lin“You also see the town constable, a banana cupcake, a large acorn, and an herbal remedy donation bin.”
