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Opera As It Used to Be, and Other News
Lodovico Burnacini, Il Pomo d’Oro, Act I, Scene V, Jupiter and His Court at Banquet with Discord Floating in a Cloud above the Table, hand-colored engraving, 1668. Image via the New York Review of...
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Your Book’s Central Nervous System, and Other News
Barbara Wildenboer. Image via This Is Colossal “Can a writer’s original inspiration survive success? Imagine you are Karl Ove Knausgaard at this point in his career … Why not enjoy success? Why not...
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The Pour of Melted Chocolate, and Other News
Hebden Bridge, 1970. Ben Lerner remembers C. D. Wright: “She was part of a line of mavericks and contrarians who struggled to keep the language particular in times of ever-encroaching standardization....
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The Delinquents
The language of debt and ethics. Illustration: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd When E. E. Cummings wrote “i am never without it (anywhere / i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done / by only me is your doing,...
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