“I’d kept up my license, but now I needed a car. What kind of car? As in the usual run of things—a congenital tilt towards irreality, an obdurate wistfulness—I pined for something that did not exist: the car at the end of the mind.”
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Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News
“In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest.”
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The Claims of Close Reading
“Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.”
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Homeward Bound: On Pigeon Racing
“They flap their wings as fast as they can until they disappear over the horizon—all heading toward Chicago, all heading home.”
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The Body I Couldn’t Abstract
“Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body.”
