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Kristen Roupenian. Photo: Elisa Roupenian Toha. There was a time when I found online dating apps addictive. It was a guiltless game: arbitrarily judging prospects by a series of photos, a far-fetched...
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Still from Episode 1 (debut 11/18/18) of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend, “Le Bambole (The Dolls).” Photo: Eduardo Castaldo/HBO. I tend to be suspicious of film and television adaptations of my favorite...
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Emily Ruskovich. I spent Christmas with my boyfriend’s family in Hudson, New York. Among other goodies, my stocking was stuffed with books, and I squirreled Emily Ruskovich’s Idaho over to the...
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Staff Picks: Decadence, Doodles, and Deep Ends
Ana Luísa Amaral. Photo: Mattias Blomgren (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)), from Wikimedia Commons. If you think of poetry as a language at its purest and most distilled,...
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Staff Picks: Features, Films, and Flicks
Still from Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. Photo courtesy of StudioCanal. You Were Never Really Here is a disturbing and poetic piece of cinema. I don’t know whether it’s my favorite movie...
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Staff Picks: Hauntings, Hollywood, and Home
María Gainza. Photo: Rosana Schoijett. My favorite genre of novel is one I like to call “women interacting with art.” Membership is somewhat limited but disproportionately loved. On this shelf sits...
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Staff Picks: Peasants, Postpartum, and Palestine
Kate Colby. Photo: Caroline Larabell. Kate Colby’s Dream of the Trenches is the book I never knew I needed. I wrote last week about my love for fiction about women interacting with art, and Colby’s...
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Staff Picks: Passion, Portals, and Premature Presents
T. S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees” I’ve spent a lot of time guddling around the Daily archive of late. There are many joys attendant to this, not least the expansion of that tragic...
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Staff Picks: Bangs, Barbie, and Bodies
Charif Shanahan. Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths. I worry that I never quite say what I mean. I think about this especially when talking (and writing) about books. Using language to describe other...
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Staff Picks: Sapphics, Scandals, and Skies
Richardson Bay as seen from Ring Mountain, Tiburon, California. Photo: Frank Schulenburg (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)). In the May issue of Harper’s, Joe Kloc tells a...
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Staff Picks: Good Guys, Goose Fat, and Ghosts of Mars
Kristen Roupenian. Photo: Elisa Roupenian Toha. There was a time when I found online dating apps addictive. It was a guiltless game: arbitrarily judging prospects by a series of photos, a far-fetched...
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Staff Picks: Whisky Priests, World’s End, and Brilliant Friends
Still from Episode 1 (debut 11/18/18) of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend, “Le Bambole (The Dolls).” Photo: Eduardo Castaldo/HBO. I tend to be suspicious of film and television adaptations of my favorite...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Broccoli Puzzles, Bot Poetry, and Banana Pudding
Emily Ruskovich. I spent Christmas with my boyfriend’s family in Hudson, New York. Among other goodies, my stocking was stuffed with books, and I squirreled Emily Ruskovich’s Idaho over to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Decadence, Doodles, and Deep Ends
Ana Luísa Amaral. Photo: Mattias Blomgren (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)), from Wikimedia Commons. If you think of poetry as a language at its purest and most distilled,...
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Staff Picks: Features, Films, and Flicks
Still from Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. Photo courtesy of StudioCanal. You Were Never Really Here is a disturbing and poetic piece of cinema. I don’t know whether it’s my favorite movie...
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Staff Picks: Hauntings, Hollywood, and Home
María Gainza. Photo: Rosana Schoijett. My favorite genre of novel is one I like to call “women interacting with art.” Membership is somewhat limited but disproportionately loved. On this shelf sits...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Peasants, Postpartum, and Palestine
Kate Colby. Photo: Caroline Larabell. Kate Colby’s Dream of the Trenches is the book I never knew I needed. I wrote last week about my love for fiction about women interacting with art, and Colby’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Passion, Portals, and Premature Presents
T. S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees” I’ve spent a lot of time guddling around the Daily archive of late. There are many joys attendant to this, not least the expansion of that tragic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Bangs, Barbie, and Bodies
Charif Shanahan. Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths. I worry that I never quite say what I mean. I think about this especially when talking (and writing) about books. Using language to describe other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Sapphics, Scandals, and Skies
Richardson Bay as seen from Ring Mountain, Tiburon, California. Photo: Frank Schulenburg (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)). In the May issue of Harper’s, Joe Kloc tells a...
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