The journalist and biographer Jason McBride and I have some confusion about how we first met—definitely before we were in Germany together for a symposium. The marathon reading of Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School we both took part in? The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery? KGB Bar in New York’s […]
Protected: Sonnet Some Months Later
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Protected: Everybody’s Vegan Brother
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The Wall Against Death
The late Victor Heringer authored the following crônica, a literary hybrid form of personal essay and cultural criticism popular in Brazil, four years before his death in 2018. Here it is available in English for the first time, translated by James Young. 1. The poet Fabiano Calixto recently launched his new collection here in São […]
Fire Island Pines, Labor Day Weekend, 1979
An excerpt from writer and photography critic Philip Gefter’s diary, which he kept from 1970-2008.
The Great Escape
In Woody Allen’s 1985 movie, The Purple Rose of Cairo, a character steps out of the silver screen-era movie in which he’s appearing, and enters the real world. The line between art and real life is blurred. Fantasy has invaded real life. Something similar is afoot in Thomas Allen’s series, Pulp Fiction, currently on show […]
When Lucy Sante left her “pathetic ex-husband.”
The critic and writer Lucy Sante likes to describe her pre-transition self as her “pathetic ex-husband.” The jibe is cute, but also sincere. “Luc was miserable,” Ms. Sante said, impishly “deadnaming” herself. “Before my transition I was cripplingly shy. Now I’m ready to talk to anyone.” She gestured around her well-worn home in Kingston, N.Y., […]
As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper
Fourteen people, most of us strangers,watch Sonya kneel by Petya shot in the middle of the street.She picks up his spectacles shining like two coins, balances them on his nose. Observe this moment—how it convulses— Snow falls and the dogs run into the streets like medics. Fourteen of us watch:Sonya kisses his forehead—her shout a […]
Poor Things: the Scottish visionary whose book inspired Yorgos Lanthimos’s movie
Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things tells the story of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), an irrepressibly free woman who seems to have the mind of an innocent child. She embarks on an exuberant voyage of discovery, travelling around 19th-century Europe and reaching Egypt, experiencing many new things as her intellect rapidly develops, before returning home to […]
A Story
Translated from Portugese by Zoë Perry. So you tell yourself a story. It hangs out for a few hours, taking hold. At first, it feels like the story could have been told another way. But then you’re startled by the idea that no, maybe there is no other way to tell it, you tried, you […]
Everything is OK. Everything is not OK.
Etgar Keret talks with Helen Phillips on not being enslaved by hatred, salvaging our dignity through humor, and the heartache of being a parent.
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