“The anxiety of hunger settled under my ribs like the feeling you get when you’re about to burst into tears. The hum of the refrigerator alone was enough to make me want to bury my head in the backyard. I often dreamt of donuts, and once, of my sister-in-law’s mother, a tenacious Serbian woman, bringing […]
How The Go-Go’s emerged from the Los Angeles punk scene in the late ’70s to become the first and only female band to have a number one album in Beauty and the Beat.
Each story we chose as our number five piece of the week in 2023, all in one place.
Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one, a composite. Let’s wander an aisle, running our fingertips across a wall of spines. One spine, thick and black, juts out: the recent NYRB Classics reissue of William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions. It’s a block of a book, […]
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“Oh, all the one-way tickets! / I haven’t found anything / more sorrowful than you / in the pockets of the world.”
I sometimes forget that it’s all the same thing.
A ‘90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.
Anton Webern’s Concerto, Opus 24 had the structure that was missing from one young musician’s life.
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