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From exercises designed by Marina Abramovic, a Serbian performance artist, for student workshops that she taught in the 1990s. Abramovic’s memoir, Walk Through Walls, was published in October by Crown…

Cast Away

by Frederic Franklyn Van de Water,

The illicit attraction of the lowly carp

Disco Inferno

by Douglas Crimp,

From notes taken in the 1970s by Douglas Crimp, an art critic. The notes appear in Before Pictures, a memoir that was published last month by the University of Chicago Press…

Nothing to be Done

by Samuel Beckett,

From a letter written in 1973 by Samuel Beckett to Estelle Parsons, an actress who had requested his thoughts on staging Waiting for Godot with Shelley Winters. The letter appears…

Class Struggle

by Grace Irwin,

I n every city there is a district which is called “tough” — a district which decent people, afraid of insult or theft, shun in both daylight and darkness. It…

Giantess

by Rebecca Solnit,

The radical is so often imagined as the marginal that sometimes the truly subversive escapes detection just by showing up in a tuxedo instead of a T-shirt or a ski…

This is Not a Painter

From a conversation between André Gomez and René Magritte, a Surrealist painter. The interview was conducted in Paris in 1948 for the Radio Suisse Romande and collected in René Magritte:…

The Watchmen

by Alan Jacobs,

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

The New New Narcissism

by Kristin Dombek,

By Kristin Dombek, from The Selfishness of Others, a monograph that was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dombek is the recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe award.

Something About Eating

by Robert Walser,

By Robert Walser (1878–1956), from Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories, a collection that will be published next month by NYRB Classics. Translated from the German by Tom Whalen.

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Untitled

Still Life

Cast Away

Disco Inferno

Nothing to be Done

Class Struggle

Giantess

This is Not a Painter

The Watchmen

The New New Narcissism

Something About Eating

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