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The Summer Issue: Redefining the Beach Read Since 1953
The living is easy—and it’s time for our summer issue! Whether you’re on the beach, in transit, or just enjoying the long days at home, this is an issue to get lost in: find fiction by Jonathan Lethem,...
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What We’re Loving: Neuroscience, Drugs, and Poetry
Our contributor Ben Lerner turned me on to an astonishing new book, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin, by Michael W. Clune. A graduate student in the English department at Johns Hopkins, Clune led...
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Huh Is on Everyone’s Tongues, and Other News
A confused London storefront. Image via Instagram The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America—arguably the closest thing our nation has to a band of superheroes—has announced the nominees for...
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Miniature Books by the Brontës, and Other News
Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard University, via the Los Angeles Times. When Charlotte Brontë was thirteen and her brother, Branwell, was twelve, they designed and wrote a series of tiny books: “Measuring...
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The Melons of Yesteryear, and Other News
Giovanni Stanchi, Watermelons, peaches, pears and other fruit in a landscape, 1645–72. Today in obsolete fruits: a seventeenth-century still life by Giovanni Stanchi reveals the extent to which...
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On Penumbra, Caio Fernando Abreu, and Alain Mabanckou
Penumbra (2022), by Hannah Black and Juliana Huxtable. Press image courtesy of the artists and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. I frequently feel saddened and angry that animals—whom I love, sometimes...
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