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The Virgin Suicides
By Jeffrey Eugenides
Anni Albers’s Many-Threaded Masterpieces
By The Paris Review“Like any craft,” Albers writes of weaving, “it may end in producing useful objects, or it may rise to the level of art.”
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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.
Poetry Rx
Poetry Rx: This Was Once a Love Poem
By Kaveh AkbarDear Poets: Over the past few months, a close friendship has evolved into what feels like an emotional affair. He is married. His wife is slowly dying.
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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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On Beirut, the Unsung Capital of Arabic Modernism
By Robyn CreswellWest Beirut, a neighborhood known as Hamra, was “the closest the Arab world could ever get to having its own Greenwich Village.”
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Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
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An Exchange
By Jeffery DonaldsonTo the Editor: With reference to your interview with John Irving appearing in your Winter 1987 edition in which Mr. Irving alleges I was rude and snubbed Mr. John Cheever during a visit to Iowa: I was not carrying a cane at the time but remember a request from Mr. Irving to speak with him privately which I did and during which meeting I suggested to him, that if he had the option to leave the cosy world of teaching, it was better to go suffer and p…
From the Archive, Issue 106
Letters & Essays
The Poet of Ignorance
By Anne SextonPerhaps the earth is floating, / I do not know. / Perhaps the stars are little paper cutups / made by some giant scissors, / I do not know.
