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  • The art of losing

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    On artificial intelligence, murderous elephants & Elizabeth Bishop

  • Perhentian Sunrise

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    A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »

  • A Silence Shared

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    « If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. »

  • No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)

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    « I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »

  • When the world makes rags of us

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    He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.

  • 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.

  • Of Anders & Kreuzwendedich

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

  • How Americans edit sex out of my writing

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    What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul of the page.

  • Bee Gees FAQ

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    Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen.

  • A breast is a breast is a breast

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    To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.

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    No one would have understood both the sentiment and the absurdity more keenly than Marx himself, whose face has adorned real currencies in more countries than anyone else’s, with the possible exception of Elizabeth II.