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Bernd and Hilla Becher photographs<\/a> at Galerie Rudolfinum Praha. Licensed under\u00a0CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

In August, I become regretful about everything that I haven’t squeezed into my summer and probably won’t. Here is an incomplete list of books I have started and not finished: <\/span>First Love<\/span><\/i><\/a> by Gwendoline Riley, <\/span>At Freddie\u2019s<\/span><\/i><\/a> by Penelope Fitzgerald, <\/span>The Palace Papers<\/span><\/i><\/a> by Tina Brown, <\/span>Sex in the Archives<\/span><\/i><\/a> by Barry Reay, and\u2014many times\u2014<\/span>Swann\u2019s Way<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0(the first few pages). <\/span><\/i>I abandoned all these books at different points and for the usual reasons; I was busy, bored, or left my copy at the beach. It seems like they are no longer going to be my summer reading\u2014maybe in September.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Sophie Haigney, web editor<\/b><\/p>\n

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This week, I returned to one of my favorite explorations of the strange geometries of syntax: \u201cWay down the deserted street, I thought I saw a bus which, with luck, might get me out of this sentence which might go on forever, knotting phrase onto phrase with fire hydrants and parking meters, and still not take me to my language waiting, surely, around some corner.\u201d In <\/span>Curves to the Apple<\/span><\/i><\/a>, Rosmarie Waldrop’s sentences accelerate and swerve, reconfiguring the modern discourse on embodiment and subjectivity; there\u2019s a spectacular volta lying in wait in each of these prose poems. \u201cI learned about communication by twisting my legs around yours,\u201d she writes, \u201cas, in spinning a thought, we twist fiber on fiber.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Oriana Ullman, assistant editor<\/b><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Bernd and Hilla Becher photographs<\/span><\/a> currently on view at the Met amazed me. They feature austere, serial portraits of industrial sites in Europe and America\u2014lime kilns, cooling stations, gravel plants\u2014which were already falling into abandonment in the last century. The photographers, who were a married team, called their practice \u201canonymous sculpture,\u201d and the result is a surprising blend of conceptual and haunted that rigorously documents the past and transforms it into something almost tender: a monument of labor lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014David Wallace, advisory editor<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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