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Disco Inferno

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…

Homecoming, the Oilers. Whiting, Indiana

by Yvette Marie Dostatni,

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.

Cock and Ball Story

by Janet Frame,

From Jay to Bee, a collection of letters by Janet Frame (1924–2004) to William Theophilus Brown, a painter, and published in May by Counterpoint. Frame was the author of thirteen…

The Origins of Speech

by Tom Wolfe,

In the beginning was Chomsky

Abandon All Hope

by Nat Segnit,

Hieronymus Bosch comes home

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by Charles Fréger,

The Jive Ass Mayor Got 10 Years

by Dapper Bruce Lafitte,

In Hayange

by Valérie Igounet, Vincent Jarousseau,

In March 2014, Marine Le Pen’s National Front took charge of eleven municipalities, among them Hayange, a city of 16,000 in northeastern France, where the unemployment rate rose to 15…

Swedish Snaps

by Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck,

In 1930 we went to live in Sweden. Before we had unpacked, and while I was still in that baffled mood that always comes on me when forced to tackle…

Parties Foul

by Laura Bates,

From themes of parties that have been held by college students in the United States and the U.K., collected by Laura Bates. Her book Everyday Sexism will be published in…