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“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

“I have tried existing, and I do not like it. I would like to give it up.”

By Darcey Steinke | December 7, 2022

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2022

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2022

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Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, and More Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade

Shaun Bythell Chronicles His Days as a Bookseller

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Allegra Hyde on Addressing the Steps to Solve Climate Change in Her New Novel

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Bombay and the Beats: Bridging Two Cities Through Their Poets

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The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

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The Darkness Within: 8 Novels About the Devil

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Gavin McCrea Reads from <em>Cells: Memories for My Mother</em>

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In <em>The Super 8 Years</em>, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

In The Super 8 Years, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

Julia Sirmons on Maternal Performance and the Growth of an Artist, Captured in Family Home Movies

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Writing the Historical Mystery Novel: Jane Smiley Explains Her Process

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On the Haunting Quality of Stefan Zweig’s <em>Chess Story</em>

On the Haunting Quality of Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story

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Cliff Bleszinski on Finding Lifelong Happiness and Eventual Success in Video Games

Cliff Bleszinski on Finding Lifelong Happiness and Eventual Success in Video Games

“Being a gamer was me, who I was. I couldn’t change that. Why would I even want to?”

By Cliff Bleszinski | December 6, 2022

Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

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