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The Terrace
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By Gary Indiana, from A Significant Loss of Human Life, one of twenty-two pamphlets published by Semiotext(e) for this year’s Whitney Biennial, which is currently on view at the Whitney…

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The Vampire
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The fickle career of Carl Van Vechten

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Mostpeople’s Poet
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Is E. E. Cummings a serious writer?

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New Books
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It is inevitable that some readers will take from Evelyn Barish’s biography of the life and misdeeds of Paul de Man the notion that literary theory is a crock. The title…

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The Oa
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On the pleasures and perils of whisky

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The Almighty Dollar
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America’s self-help gospel

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The Rat’s Guide
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By Amitava Kumar, from A Matter of Rats, a “short biography” of his hometown of Patna, India, to be published by Duke University Press in April. Patna is the capital…

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Janes Bond

From “Divine Secrets of the RYBAT Sisterhood: Four Senior Women of the Directorate of Operations Discuss Their Careers,” the transcript of a recently declassified 2004 conversation among five high-ranking female…

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The View from 86
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By Malcolm Cowley, from a December 20, 1984, letter to Peter Braestrup, editor of Wilson Quarterly. Best known for his literary criticism, Cowley died in 1989. The Long Voyage: Selected…

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Does Mailer Matter?
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The Young Writer and the last literary celebrity

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The Mercenary Position
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Can Amazon change its predatory ways?

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