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The Groups
... “WE WONDER at our shifting capacities, keep / adding and striking skills / from the bottoms of our résumés / under constant revision / like the inscriptions on tombs,” Anna Moschovakis writes...
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Horse’s Mouth
... me tremendous insight into the intricate high-stakes game played by the British and French empires in their struggle to dominate North America and the central role the Iroquoian-speaking...
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Artful Volumes
... travels to North Africa. Pictures of women’s feet, television sets ablaze with headline news, and early hip-hop fans are just some of the recurring subjects in this slim compilation, which only...
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Bookforum talks with Rachel Kushner about carceral geography and her new book, The Hard Crowd
... specificity to every other worker of that era, who went north, worked at Fiat, lost their temper, decided they “wanted everything.” But of this book I wrote, and especially the title essay, “The Hard Crowd...
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Hulu orders "Normal People" series; Nicole Dennis-Benn on representation in fiction
... Anna North is working on a Western. Outlawed, “a feminist Western following a young midwife through her initiation into the...
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Artful Volumes
... four hundred modernist items from North America and Europe, made after history’s first modern bloodbath (World War I), are featured in this volume, which smartly reflects on the roaring decade that...
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Grave Reservation
... woman named Anna Brown. Brown was a drinker and a carouser. "She had often gone on 'sprees,' as her family disparagingly called them," Grann writes. Still, there was cause for alarm. Anna's sister...
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Bearing Witness
... and ‘a grand experiment’ is really a way of valuing one life, one story, one experience over another.” The letter also, as the writer Anna Kegler argued in the Huffington Post, reflects a...
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Arundhati Roy with Siddhartha Deb
... with Anna Hazare, which was covered twenty-four-seven by corporate media channels. That was the beginning of the BJP and the various very, very right-wing groups who were backing it at the time...
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The Wild Bunch
... the sections in Anna Karenina about Konstantin Levin’s farm, your taste for these bits will depend on how many spoonfuls of adultery you take in your cup of agricultural living--or, in Kushner...
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Oct 10, 2012 @ 12:01:00 am
...-screenwriter-bret-easton-ellis-freaks-out/> about the decision. The annual meeting of the Jane Austen Society
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Jul 7, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
.../2011/07/06/on-acknowledgements/>, Anna North reflects on the art of the acknowledgments page and the perils of thanking everybody the writer has known since grade school. “Parsimony,” North suggests...