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Old Lesbian Love
The sexual objectification of the body, of our bodies, is less an insult these days and more of a goal.
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The French Cartoonist
Who Limned New York City
"While Paris is gray-blue, New York is very, very colorful."
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How English Took Over the World
English has become not just the “language of Europe”—it has become the dominant lingua franca of the world.
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What’s Wrong with Me?
"We know that our health-care system is failing people who live with chronic pain and illness. I know because it's failing me."
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Language That Lives: How to Translate an Italian Master
Far from being ornamental, wordplay serves a very specific function in 'Verdigris.'
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The Enduring Influence of the Op-Ed
Despite fears that an array of new shortform writing on the internet would spell an end to the op-ed, the opposite seems to have happened.
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The Forgotten History of the Chapter
The chapter possesses the trick of vanishing while in the act of serving its various purposes.
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Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry
McMurtry was ruddering against the idea of the great Texas myth, which glorified a way of life that was mostly stultifying and mean.
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Leonora Carrington’s New York Year
Leonora was divided between quite different lives in New York. Some of the time, she was a lovelorn wife; other times she was an up-and-coming surrealist superstar.
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Two Pisces Emote About the Passage of Time
"She appreciates the sensation of stripping away what once delighted her—a feeling like she is getting out ahead of the inevitable."
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“Now You Make the Tiger”: An Excerpt from Tania James’s ‘Loot’
"The French word for animal comes from the Latin animus, meaning breath."
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I’m the One Who Survives: An Excerpt from ‘The Postcard’
I remember with cruel clarity the day when someone said to me—I was still only little—“Your family died in an oven.”
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My Fairy-Tale Life
Jack Zipes has spent 80 years thinking about fairy tales. Here's what he learned.
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