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The Moment of Distraction
By Amit ChaudhuriThis is the final installment of Amit Chaudhuri’s column, The Moment. Last year, I commuted between Oxford and Norwich, where I teach in the autumn. On Mondays, I took a train via London; on Tuesday evening, I took the same route back. It’s a fo…
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By Pati HillI like cats as far as creatures go. I like almost any animal that does not have horns or scales on it for that matter, but I especially like cats. Any sort and denomination: spotted or solid, fat or thin, with and without fleas. I like them and admire them and almost anything they do is a pleasure to me. The way they can walk around the rim of a bathtub, for instance, without falling in and the way they can get comfortable in any old place. There is nothing better than a cat looking out f…
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Deana Lawson: A Preview
By Deana LawsonOver the last ten years, Deana Lawson has created a landscape of found intimacy. Using medium- and large-format cameras, Lawson works with models she meets in the United States and on travels in the Caribbean and Africa to construct arresting, highly…
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Poetry Rx: Poor Deluded Human, You Seek My Heart
By Kaveh AkbarIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line. Dear Poets, I am…
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By Zadie SmithThe name on the card was Clark: they were to meet in the ten-minute waiting zone just outside departures. But Clark was late and the morning frigid. McRae got back in his car, drove around, parked in the lot, and walked into baggage claim.
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Hillbilly Airs and Dances
By John AshberyThe same ideas or different ones condense, / and you don’t have to sleep again. / Garbage is necessary. That’s another issue / that hasn’t been talked about. // I hear what you’re saying. / Now all together: Everyone is standing / outside some movement: French spenders, / my business train, jillions / of irregular plurals.
