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Ralph Lauren
By Katana Smith“cotton sweaters with the American flag, / Oxford shirts, and riding boots.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 256
Poetry
from “Adamant!”
By Jean Day“Frankenstein, an early adopter, fidgets / by firelight”
In the Current Issue, Issue 256
Poetry
Clearly Fake: Zurbarán’s Uncanny Realism
By Jackson Arn“The blunt way to put it is that when he’s not pulling off sublime feats of realism, Zurbarán can be spectacularly clumsy.”
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Lil Spooky
By Chad Fore“He hadn’t been sure if he was supposed to fight back or just take the beating, if he could dodge the blows or cover his face or what, but it wound up not mattering.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 256
Fiction
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Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp
By Kathryn Scanlan“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.”
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On Books
Two Lives
By Daisy Hildyard“Place a man and a woman in a train carriage together and the mind doggedly closes in—but between him and Katharine there had been something else.”
