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Framing The Shadows

The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith

An Off Pursuit

by Joan Murray,

From a draft of a letter written in 1940 by Joan Murray (1917–42) to W. H. Auden (1907–73). The letter is included in Drafts, Fragments, and Poems, a collection of…

Flesh and Blood

by Vivian Gornick,

Three close encounters with Sons and Lovers

“Popeye” Perry, 105 Ridge Road, Lackawanna, New York, October 26, 1977

by Stephen Shore,

Political Wilderness

by Samuel Kaplan,

Lately it seems that politicians have made increasing use of the phrase “home rule.” The rash of rhetoric, which includes President Nixon’s reorganization plan to move government closer to the…

W.W.E. the People

by Naomi Klein,

By Naomi Klein, from No Is Not Enough, which was published in June by Haymarket Books. Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine, among other books.

The Seven-Year Itch

by Patrick Leigh Fermor,

From a letter written by Patrick Leigh Fermor to Enrica Soma in 1961. Soma was a model and ballerina, and the wife of the director John Huston. Fermor was the…

School Survival Guide

by Russell Lynes,

During the depressed years of the Thirties a good many private schools went out of business. Others cut their faculty salaries back to levels which confirmed teachers in their suspicion…

All the Last Wars

by Charles Glass, Don McCullin,

Around the world with the Goya of conflict photography

Eric Duncan

by Philip Roth,

By Philip Roth, from remarks he gave at a celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday at Columbia University in 2008. They are included in Philip Roth: Why Write?, which will be published…

American Expansion

by Helen Vendler,

The innovations of A.R. Ammons

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