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The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
“The art endures partly because it’s rooted in the moment—the surrender of one person to another.”
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Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece
“Will an A.I. restoration of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?”
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Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
“A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it.”
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Lessons for the End of the World
“On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.”
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A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
“Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered literature?”
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‘Actually Really Sacred’: A George Saunders Reading List
Nine essays and interviews from literature’s favorite laureate of compassion.
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When the Arctic Melts
“What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.”
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The Texan Doctor and the Disappeared Saudi Princesses
“Four daughters in the royal family were kept drugged and imprisoned for almost two decades. A physician who tried to free them speaks out for the first time.”
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A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending
“Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star pressed charges.”
