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The Verb to Be
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Metaphor Map (from the Makers of Allegory Atlas), and Other News
The University of Glasgow’s Metaphor Map.Our Summer issue features illustrations by Jason Novak for the first installment of Chris Bachelder’s new novel, The Throwback Special. Now you can see them...
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Joseph Severn, Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound, 1845.The Bodleian Library has recovered a lost poem by Shelley—the ambitiously named “Poetical Essay on the Existing State of...
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After My Struggle: An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Snorri the Seal
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Photo: scarletgreen Today in extravagant acts of self-protection: Julian Barnes wasn’t a fan of his first novel, 1980’s Metroland. So he wasn’t surprised when it got a savage notice in an organ called...
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From The Teeth of the Comb
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The novelist Martha Baillie turned her book into installation art. Photo via Publishers Weekly In praise of the footnote1: “Many readers, and perhaps some publishers, seem to view endnotes, indexes,...
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The Verb to Be
André Breton in 1924. André Breton’s poem “The Verb to Be” originally appeared in our Spring 1985 issue. I know the general outline of despair. Despair has no wings, it doesn’t necessarily sit at a...
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Fell That Fairy, and Other News
Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (detail), 1855–64. The Warburg Institute, which dates to 1900, is one of Britain’s most peculiar libraries; in its radically open stacks, astrological...
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Metaphor Map (from the Makers of Allegory Atlas), and Other News
The University of Glasgow’s Metaphor Map. Our Summer issue features illustrations by Jason Novak for the first installment of Chris Bachelder’s new novel, The Throwback Special. Now you can see them...
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The Existing State of Things, and Other News
Joseph Severn, Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound, 1845. The Bodleian Library has recovered a lost poem by Shelley—the ambitiously named “Poetical Essay on the Existing State of...
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After My Struggle: An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard
From the paperback edition of My Struggle, Book 2. Readers in the U.S. await the fifth volume of My Struggle—but in Norway, Karl Ove Knausgaard has moved on. With the money from Struggle’s sales, he’s...
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Snorri the Seal
What a vain little seal! It’s Banned Books Week, and everyone is rallying around the classics: your Gatsbys, your Catcher in the Ryes, your Mockingbirds and Lady Chatterleys. No one is giving any love...
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Photo: scarletgreen Today in extravagant acts of self-protection: Julian Barnes wasn’t a fan of his first novel, 1980’s Metroland. So he wasn’t surprised when it got a savage notice in an organ called...
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From The Teeth of the Comb
Hans Thoma, Mond (detail). SWAMP I turned into a swamp of inactivity, and because of this no one was able to see the gems in my depths. ON TOP OF THE PYRAMID An enormous garbage bag, seeing the...
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