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Portraits
By Ron Veasey“Portraiture has been Veasey’s primary mode for the past four decades. A bright yellow often animates his figures’ teeth and eyes.”
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Art & Photography
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My Enemies, A–Z
By Molly YoungJellyfish larvae, looking things up online, T-shirts that say where the wearer attended college.
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“This was the farewell …”
By Hannah Arendt“Many friends came with us / and whoever did not come was no longer a friend.”
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Poetry
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Bernadette Mayer on Her Influences
By Bernadette Mayer“Bill Berkson at the New School he told me I wrote too much like Gertrude Stein. This was quite prescient of him since I had never read Gertrude Stein, so I hurried to.”
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Everything I Haven’t Done
By Morgan Thomas“Hey, how are you doing? her text said. I read it again: Hey. How are you doing? I read it again: Hey. How. Are. You. Doing?”
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Fiction
Naked
By Fumio Yamamoto“At first, the descriptor ‘Unemployed, Age 34’ had sounded almost like a criminal charge, but I’d gotten used to it soon enough.”
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Fiction
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