From the Archive
Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
Poem for Merwin
By Matthew ZapruderAn original poem by Matthew Zapruder for W. S. Merwin, written, in part, at his home in Hawaii
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In Memoriam
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
The Genius of Terry Southern
By David L. UlinGiven that we’re living in a Terry Southern novel, perhaps there’s no better time than now to revisit his trenchant, sidesplitting work.
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Arts & Culture
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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Isaac Bashevis Singer From Beyond the Grave
By Matt LevinEvery few months, it seems, there is a Singer dispatch from beyond the grave, another label-less bottle floating in on the tide. Reading his bibliography, one would never guess he has been dead nearly three decades.
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Arts & Culture
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Guerre de Plume
By Martha GellhornApocryphal stories would not be worth worrying about if their inventors stuck to the spoken word. What’s a bit of bragging or slander among friends? But when these tales reach print they become accepted fact. No matter how implausible or self-serving, how spiteful or absurd, they are believed. Distinguished professors, scholars, biographers repeat and thus validate the fantasies of apocryphiars (new word). Built-in falsehood, children, is bad.
From the Archive, Issue 79
Letters & Essays
A Brief Correspondence Course
By Ron PadgettWhen I close a letter / with "Cordially," I / blush with shame. / It sounds insincere. / But when a letter / comes to me / with that same closing, / I glow with warmth. /
