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Cassandra at Weddings, and Other Questions
By Lorin SteinI’m the only child of a single mom, who’s obviously been my best friend from the start. But here’s the thing: after twenty-six years, she recently remarried.
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Portfolio - Anita de Caro
By Anita de CaroAnita De Caro is at home in either New York or Paris and yet she is a stranger to both of them in that their con- ventional sights and views—those that the tourist sees most easily—continue to suprise and delight her. Last year she returned to her native New York for a joint exhibition with Jacques Villon at the Grace Borgonicht Gallery. Her reaction to the city's skyscrapers and bridges is reflected in some of the drawings reproduced on these pages. Her feeling for the slow waters of the S…
From the Archive, Issue 13
Art & Photography
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Repo Man: Glen Campbell in Charles Portis’s Norwood
By Rebecca BengalGlen Campbell was the perfect articulator of Portis’s defiantly at-odds small-town characters and their old-fashioned dreams.
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Sketches for Thy Neighbor's Wife
By Gay TaleseIn order to get to Gay Talese’s study you have to leave his Upper East Side town house and go down the elegantly curling stairs, into another entrance, with another set of keys, and down another flight of steps.
From the Archive, Issue 189
Art & Photography
Doggerels
By Samuel Beckettwhat good the eyes / have ill seen / have let escape / close them tight / the fingers the eyes / good is back / better still
From the Archive, Issue 215
Poetry
808 A.D.
By Damion SearlsNot too old, not young anymore, / almost three dozen years gone by. / Not a failure, not a success— / my first real job, a job to grow old in. / Some / potential, too lazy to use it: / I’d watch TV but I like the window more. / My money gets spent when I have it;
