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Merce Cunningham’s Legacy Plan
By Eugene LimRevisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Eugene Lim revisits the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s final performance. CONAN: How do you obliterate space and time? Mr. JONES: Well, you k…
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Mirabeau Bridge
By Guillaume ApollinaireUnder the Mirabeau Bridge there flows the Seine / Must I recall / Our loves recall how then / After each sorrow joy came back again
From the Archive, Issue 81
Poetry
Reading J. A. Baker in Fall
By Barret BaumgartGood artists imitate; great artists steal. In our new series, Stolen, writers share stories of theft. It was autumn and warm, late evening, and the shadows were as long as the hot busses that hissed and braked alongside the main library’s midwest…
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Requiem for a Friend
By Rainer Maria RilkeI have my dead, and I have let them go, / and was amazed to see them so contented, / so soon at home in being dead, so cheerful, / so unlike their reputation. Only you
From the Archive, Issue 82
Poetry
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Limericks for John Ashbery
By Patrick MackieI was with some poetry friends in a pub near Holborn, shooting the breeze before a reading two of us were participating in. The breeze was fairly dark on that day, for various reasons. It was the weekend following Donald Trump’s inauguration for o…
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Careful
By Raymond CarverAfter a lot of talking—what his wife, Inez, called assessment—Lloyd moved out of the house and into his own place.
From the Archive, Issue 88
Fiction
Children
By Terry CastleI've been collecting anonymous photographs for more than two decades now and probably own a thousand or so, in all kind of formats. Nineteenth-century tintypes and cyanotypes, cabinet cards and cartes de visite, turn-of-the-century RPPCs (Real Photo Postcards), disaster pix, police mugshots and Bertillon cards, photo-booth strips, deaccessioned newspaper photos (especially ones with white crop marks), old prom photos, not to mention a recently acquired batch of ratty,
From the Archive, Issue 198
Art & Photography
To Mac Griswold
By Frederick SeidelSuddenly I’m ready to eat the world, / Starting with the food on my plate. / The waiter asks if everything’s all right. / Everything’s great. / Everything looks the same but nothingness is night. / Time to go back upstairs into more electric light.
