Books

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In the Beginning

In the Beginning

Photograph by J.D. Daniels. I don’t remember learning to read. There is a story ...

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Paul Bowles in Tangier

Paul Bowles in Tangier

From left, Paul Bowles and Frederic Tuten in Tangiers in the eighties. Photograp...

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Toyota Yaris

Toyota Yaris

Photograph by Sarah Miller. In 2007, I bought a brand-new red two-door Toyota Ya...

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Kurt Vonnegut’s House Is Not Haunted

Kurt Vonnegut’s House Is Not Haunted

Kurt Vonnegut’s house. Photograph by Sophie Kemp. In my earliest childhood memor...

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On Bei Dao’s Visual Art

On Bei Dao’s Visual Art

Ink dot painting by Bei Dao, from the series “The Moment.” Photograph courtesy o...

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New Movies, Fall 2023

New Movies, Fall 2023

Janet Planet (2023). All photos courtesy of New York Film Festival. Annie Baker’...

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Child Reading

Child Reading

Photograph by Timmy Straw. In childhood, books have a smell. Not an actual smell...

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Citroën Cactus

Citroën Cactus

The French Cactus. Photograph by Holly Connolly. “Okay, fine,” I said, when we s...

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Teetering Canaries

Teetering Canaries

Illustration by Na Kim. Translated by Imogen Taylor One stifling hot night in ea...

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An Illegible Quartet and Choreographic Research

An Illegible Quartet and Choreographic Research

Dietmar Rabich, “Kreta (GR), Rethymno, Fortezza, Theater,” Wikimedia Commons, CC...

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The Sofa

The Sofa

Berthe Morisot, On the Sofa, ca. 1882. Public domain. In the months in which dea...

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The Art of the Libretto: A Conversation with Thulani Davis

The Art of the Libretto: A Conversation with Thulani Davis

Courtesy of Thulani Davis. X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X is opening at the ...

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Dirty Brown Subaru Outback

Dirty Brown Subaru Outback

Screenshot from “2011 Subaru Outlack AWD (Walkthrough).” My mom liked to call th...

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Recognizing the Stranger

Recognizing the Stranger

Isabella Hammad. Photograph by Alice Zoo. I wrote this lecture in August 2023 an...

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The Future of Ghosts

The Future of Ghosts

Image of a ghost, produced by double exposure, 1899. Courtesy of the National Ar...

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Remembering Louise Glück, 1943–2023

Remembering Louise Glück, 1943–2023

Louise Glück’s studio in Vermont. Photograph by Louise Glück. Courtesy of Richar...