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  • Skinned alive

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    Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.

  • A sangre fría

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    Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.

  • The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard Glissant

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    An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of…

  • The South Bronx did not exist

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    〖  A killed darling. 〗 Spoiler alert: it did.

  • Cheers!

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    A photograph found in Rome’s Porta Portese. The recumbent can also raise a glass.

  • Marx and the art of natural winemaking

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    The grapes are tiny, burnt to a crisp. It’s day two of the harvest, in late August — freakishly early in a year of drought and heat waves. What is…

  • The room I am in

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    Tight pants. Fashionable coats. Music. Defiant looks. On the last men & women who passed through the Bulgarian gulag.

  • Glossomania-mania

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    On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.

  • A recipe for word vomit

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    On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals.

  • Of Anders & Kreuzwendedich

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    On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.

  • Longing + debt

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 And — I failed. I replaced this paragraph.

  • Dinosaurs + dolphins

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 A joke format that endured for precisely one week.