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Happiness
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From the Summer 2023 issue of The Stinging Fly. She can’t sleep. The interesting thing about wind is how human it sounds, as a voice, unappeasable. She pulls her knees…

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Troys and Girls
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From Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, a version of Euripides’ Helen, published last month by New Directions. The play was performed last spring at the Shed’s Griffin Theater, in New…

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New Books
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Design for a grotesque mask by Johann Ulrich Stapf © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Witch hunts have always been a tool of those in power. As such, they shed…

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The Cancer Chair
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Is suffering meaningless?

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New Books
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A motley crew steers Anne Carson’s FLOAT (Knopf, $30). There’s Edmund Husserl, Jean-Luc Godard, Joan of Arc, Pablo Picasso, mad Hölderlin, Hegel, a chorus of Gertrude Steins, and Carson’s noble,…

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Introducing the January Issue
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Alan Lightman, John Darnielle, Art Spiegelman, Anne Carson, and more.

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Poetry Slam
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Or, The decline of American verse

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Red Excerpts
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