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But What About the Soul: Poets at the Movies (Part 1)Bloomsday 2013: John JoyceMr. Chan and the MachineMOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)Rape in the Military: Ben Klay's TestimonyLove, Loneliness, Rot: "That Smell" and Egypt Under Nasser The White Worm: Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color"What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby WorksHow To Read AgambenThe Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan ZaqtanPost-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season FourTen Things I Learned From Loving "Anne of Green Gables" see all essays »
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Living It Up at the Death Café: An Interview with Lizzy MilesDigging Into Crimes: A Conversation with Peter May[VIDEO] Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"Funambulism: An Interview with Colum McCannPODCAST #32: Jeff Weiss & Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie"The Public Life of Poetry: An Interview with Natasha TretheweyThe Second Act of Alex Espinoza[VIDEO] Stephen Burt, "Belmont: Poems"50 Years of NYRB: An Interview with Robert Silvers Paul Farmer: What He’s Afraid of, and What’s Wrong With The Way We Do AidContextual Loneliness: An Interview with Fiona MaazelPODCAST #31: Marc Maron, "Attempting Normal"[VIDEO] Tom Bissell and The Perks of Being a Dilettante see all interviews »
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Maggie Nelson on Bough Down by Karen Green

“Untied, Undone: "Bough Down" by Karen Green”

May 2nd, 2013
Menachem Kaiser on Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

“Unshared Histories: Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands"”

October 16th, 2012
F.X. Feeney on Pogo and Go Fish by Walt Kelly and Mr. Fish

“Us Is Doomed: On Walt Kelly and Mr. Fish”

September 17th, 2012
Jesse Jarnow on Always In Trouble by Jason Weiss

“Unmatched Independent: On Record Label ESP-Disk'”

August 19th, 2012
David Wolf on Zona and Noriko Smiling by Geoff Dyer and Adam Mars-Jones

“Unprecedented Attentiveness”

June 3rd, 2012
Susan Salter Reynolds on James Franco: The Dangerous Book Four Boys by James Franco

“Unfamous”

May 6th, 2012
Jeffrey Tayler on Autumn & Winter Sonatas by Ramon Del Valle-Inclan

“An Unknown Man: The Memoirs of Marquis of Bradomin”

February 19th, 2012
Lee Konstantinou on The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

“Unfinished Form”

July 6th, 2011

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