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Fine By Me

Geoff Dyer’s unlikely terms of engagement.

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Last Wishes

On Nabokov’s Novel in Fragments.

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A Brief History of Ghost Hunting

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A Brief History of Spying

Law Philosophy Politics Race

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

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One, Two, Three, and Four Rabbits

Translated from the Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz.

Philosophy Politics

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul.

Politics

How Knowledge are Americans About the Supreme Court?

State of the Nation

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Nebenwelt

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Carnival

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Oneiric Theory

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Review: Self-Portrait with Crayon

By Allison Benis White.

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Liquefaction

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Desperately Seeking Sam

Remembering Beckett twenty years after his death.

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World Tumbling Into World

Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary and This Nest, Swift Passerine.

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Review: Chronic

By D.A. Powell.

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The Transit of the Beautiful

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Poet’s Sampler: Farnoosh Fathi

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12th Annual Poetry Contest Winner

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Politic

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A Distant Pleasure

New translations of C.P. Cavafy.

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Review: The Ghost Soldiers

By James Tate.

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Nocturama: Novel Excerpt

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Review: Pacific Shooter

By Susan Parr. 

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