The story refers to the twins’ father’s participation in “the Slaughter, when all animal life was being extinguished by guns ...

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Our seminal blonde, Lorelei Lee, comes from Little Rock, Arkansas, with a dubious backstory full of intrigue. An archetypal faux-naïf, she uses her perceived naïveté to get the better of the gentlemen ...

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 cleared table in the ...

Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her breakthrough international success came with The Lover ...

My mamaw used to say, ‘I thought life was just one damned thing after another until I realized it’s the same damned thing ...

October 20, 2020 – I’ve been thinking on russet lately, this color of oak and Rembrandt and austerity. Its terra-cotta earthiness fits my mood.

Usually, institutional libraries are governed by highly codified policies. Their catalogues are their raison d’être, elegant data structures that facilitate easy circulation and millennial continuity.

I first encountered the Kat in my early twenties, trying to wean myself off Cummings’s love poetry by reading his letters. Heartbroken and too raw for new experiences, I took comfort in the strange ...

May 20, 2025 – On retro screen savers, Bianca Rae Messinger’s pleasureis amiracle, and Grandma’s iMac.

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February 29, 2024 – Reality TV magnates Chip and Joanna Gaines bought Larry McMurtry’s collection of 300,000 books and put it in a Waco Hotel they're redesigning. Our reporter visited.