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The Art of Fiction No. 238
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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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Tricks
By Joy WilliamsLiberty had never cared for Halloween. The night gave the false hope that when one was summoned to the door by a stranger’s knock, one’s most horrible fears could be realized by the appearance of ghosts, bats, ambulatory corpses, and the headless hounds of hell.
From the Archive, Issue 90
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Seven and a Half Short Notes on Sandy Denny
By Brian CullmanSandy Denny (January 6, 1947–April 21, 1978) 1) I just finished the recent Sandy Denny biography. I was very disappointed by it. In the end, she dies. In the bio that I want to read, she’s now living in a cottage in Wales and drinking only on T…
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Amy Sillman and Tom McGrath
By David SalleAmy Sillman and Tom McGrath are very different kinds of New York artists—Amy a modern-day action painter, Tom a new breed of realist—who share an ontological approach to the problem of pictorial staging: What is this thing I am making, they ask, and how can it be said to “represent” anything other than itself?
From the Archive, Issue 195
Art & Photography
Little Expressionless Animals
By David Foster WallaceIt’s 1976. The sky is low and full of clouds. The grey clouds are bulbous and wrinkled and shiny. The sky looks cerebral. Under the sky is a field, in the wind. A pale highway runs beside the field. Lots of cars go by. One of the cars stops by the side of the highway. Two small children are brought out of the car by a young woman with a loose face. A man at the wheel of the car stares straight ahead. The children are silent and have very white skin. The woman carries a grocery bag full of someth…
From the Archive, Issue 106
Fiction
In The Poor Part of Town
By Michael CovinoI lived in the poor part of town / where the hookers hung out on the street corners at night, / and sometimes, / when I'd swing my battered Datsun / off the bright avenue / onto my obscure side street, / they'd trip around the corner after me
