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The Music Room

Adeeba Shahid Talukder

May 10, 2021

On loosing and finding Hindustani classical music.

The Visions of Henry Dumas

John Keene

May 03, 2021

On a genre-breaking forerunner of Afrofuturism.

Lush Life

Elias Rodriques

April 29, 2021

Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.

Loose Change

Madeleine Crum

March 18, 2021

A new novel’s conflict plays out in dollars and cents.

The Talking Cure

Hannah Gold

March 03, 2021

On Christine Smallwood’s novel of neuroses.

Stepping Twice in the Same River

Juan José Saer

March 01, 2021

A translated excerpt from Juan José Saer's “El río sin orillas.”

Surrealism’s Beating Heart

Reed McConnell

February 18, 2021

On Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, and leaving musehood behind.

Tove Ditlevsen’s Fragmentary Self

Bailey Trela

January 25, 2021

On the radical facticity of The Copenhagen Trilogy.

Winters of Discontent

Matt Hanson

December 17, 2020

Steinbeck was no stranger to bleak times.

Reality Bites

Rafia Zakaria

December 04, 2020

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the pursuit of literary fame.

Ruins of a Memory Palace

Francesca Wade

November 30, 2020

On Judith Schalansky’s imaginative archives.

Death of a Poet

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

November 27, 2020

The peculiar tragedy of J P Clark-Bekederemo.