From the Archive
The Denial of Death
By Louise Glück
The Roots of a Forgotten Massacre
By Julián HerbertIn 1911, some three hundred Chinese immigrants were murdered in the northern Mexican city of Torreón. How did this happen?
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Arts & Culture
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
A Conversation between Kate Zambreno and Sarah Manguso
By Sarah Manguso“I began really writing again once I became a mother, and I think this is parallel to a sudden intense fear of death and renewed grief.”
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At Work
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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Redux
By The Paris ReviewThis week, to celebrate the launch of our new book, ‘Writers at Work around the World,’ we’ve lowered the paywall on work by Elena Ferrante, Haruki Murakami, and Jorge Luis Borges.
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Redux
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
“When, thanks to the virtues of wine,…”
By Patrizia CavalliWhen, thanks to the virtues of wine, / I let go of solid memory and a certain pleasure / seems almost real to me / having secretly picked up a scent / in the john of a friend who uses that scent
From the Archive, Issue 205
Poetry
The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge
By Evan S. ConnellThe black Lincoln that Mr. Bridge gave her on her forty-seventh birthday was a size too long and she drove it as cautiously as she might have driven a locomotive. People were always blowing their horns at her or turning their heads to stare when they went by. The Lincoln was set to idle too slowly and in consequence the engine sometimes died when she pulled up at an intersection, but as her husband never used the Lincoln and she herself assumed it was just one of those things a…
