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Fam
By Venita Blackburn
Notes from an Exiled Revolutionary
By Victor SergeIn his notebooks, the writer and revolutionary Victor Serge reflects on life in exile, a world at war, and the cruel fates of his friends.
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Arts & Culture
Poetry Rx
By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
Poetry Rx
The Stupid Classics Book Club
By Elisa GabbertThe project of this book club would be to read all the corny stuff from the canon that we really should have read in school but never did.
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Mess With a Classic
Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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Easter in Sri Lanka: Today Is Loss That Isn’t Loss
By Vyshali ManivannanSunday’s bombings came as a reminder that the cycle of violence continues, along with the trauma it leaves in its wake.
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Postcards
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
The Third Reich: Part I
By Roberto BolañoBy the time of his death in 2003, at age fifty, Roberto Bolaño was already a somewhat legendary figure. A Chilean who spent most of his life in poverty and exile, Bolaño helped found the Infrarealist poetry movement in Mexico City. Later, he settled in the town of Blanes, on Spain’s Costa Brava. In the mid-nineties—according to legend—Bolaño set poetry aside, hoping to support his wife and young child by writing fiction. Over the next ten years, he produced a string of books, including By Nig…
From the Archive, Issue 196
Fiction
A Story
By Czeslaw MiloszNow I will tell Meader’s story; I have a moral in view.He was pestered by a Grizzly so bold and maliciousThat he used to snatch caribou meat from the eaves of the cabin.
