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Five Poems by ‘Antarah ibn Shaddād
By Antarah ibn Shaddād
Cooking with Eileen Chang
By Valerie StiversIn Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words series, she cooks up recipes drawn from the works of various writers. The 1940s wartime Shanghai in Love in a Fallen City, a book of short stories by Eileen Chang (1920–1995), is a bitter and glamorous world…
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Eat Your Words
The Secret Order of Joy
By Edmund WhiteI can’t really remember how I met Tommy. I recollect him first as a smooth cloche of shiny light brown hair sporting the slender plume of a cowlick, a head bent over a book in study hall belonging to someone I’d heard was captain of the tennis team, leader of the Crowd and Sally.
From the Archive, Issue 84
Fiction
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Remembering Stanley Cavell
By Patrick MackieWhile driving back from a party through the warm London night last Monday evening, I decided to tell my girlfriend about Stanley Cavell’s interpretation of Macbeth. The story does not reflect any better on me, if you know the essay in question. I…
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In Memoriam
Notice of Loss
By Hans Magnus EnzensbergerTo lose your hair, to lose your temper, / if you see what I mean, your precious time, / to fight a losing battle, / losing height and lustre, sorry, / never mind, to lose on points,
From the Archive, Issue 77
Poetry
My Sad Captains
By Thom GunnOne by one they appear in / the darkness: a few friends, and / a few with historical / names. How late they start to shine!
From the Archive, Issue 26
Poetry
Plea to a Potential Lover
By Laurel BlossomDon’t take me home, at least not yet; / Let’s have another drink, and sit / and talk—I want to be your woman, / but there isn’t any rush. / Let’s take our time, / and think it out.
