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In Defense of Puns
By James GearyPuns point to the essence of all true wit—the ability to hold in the mind two different ideas about the same thing at the same time.
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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.
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The Shocking, Subversive Endings of Taeko Kōno’s Stories
By Gabe HabashIn Kōno’s stories, in which sex, power, and desire are all intertwined, the desire of the protagonists, all of them women, is so powerful that it topples their lives
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Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
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An Interview with Dan Callahan
By Ben ShieldsBobby and Ben have a painful romantic friendship that is both reciprocal and unrequited. Their relationship takes detours into places of euphoria and heartbreak, and the only thing that never changes is the cinema.
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Eat Your Words
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Between Sleep and Waking
By Georges PerecAt first the darkness sometimes forms the vague outline of an ace of spades: from a point in front of you two lines recede, diverge and, after tracing a vast curve, tum back towards you.
From the Archive, Issue 56
Fiction
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By Anne-Laure ZeviThis morning, Esther Saint-Juste did nothing between the time she woke up and the time she got out of bed. There is nothing she’ll be able to tell her husband when he calls just before lunch. The telephone may already have rung.
