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Timmy Straw on “Brezhnev”
By Timmy Straw“This dance (so I imagined) is what formed reality itself—Reagan’s America, Gorbachev’s Soviet Union—and the dancers’ mutually blind position was like an engine, driving the world on.”
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The Review Celebrates Seventy with Fried Eggs by the Canal
By Matthew Higgs“In a way, the eggs are the most contemporary thing in the painting.”
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This Configuration
By John AshberyThis movie deals with the epidemic of the way we live now. / What an inane card player. And the age may support it. / Each time the rumble of the age / Is an anthill in the distance.
From the Archive, Issue 79
Poetry
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Camus’s New York Diary
By Albert Camus“I notice that I haven’t noticed the skyscrapers, that they’ve seemed only natural. It’s a question of overall scale.”
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Diaries
The Saint
By Gabriel García MárquezI saw Margarito Duarte, after twenty-two years, on one of the narrow secret streets in Trastevere, and at first I had trouble recognizing him because he spoke halting Spanish and had the appearance of an old Roman.
From the Archive, Issue 128
Fiction
My Blockchain
By Peter Mishler“Having worn my camouflage for leisure, / having fed upon a shale bed’s vapors”
From the Archive, Issue 242
Poetry
Gertrude
By Isabella Hammad“Nothing is more flattering to an artist than the illusion that he is a secret revolutionary.”
