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Peter Sellars on ‘The Winds of Destiny’
Theater director Peter Sellars has never seen a great work of art that didn’t reflect the madness of modern life. Which for years has driven critics around the bend, who have accused Sellars of...
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Larger than News; Professional M.F.A. People
Hi Mr. Stein. I went to a talk you gave many months ago at McNally Jackson about The Paris Review. You said something that has stayed in my mind, especially now that President Obama has said that we...
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‘Bartleby,’ ‘Star Wars,’ and Animal Authors
May Day viewed through the prism of Bartelby the Scrivener. In Afghanistan, women are risking their lives for poetry. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s wall text will now reflect Gertrude Stein’s...
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Your Eyes Deceive You: Claire Beckett at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Marine Lance Corporal Nicole Camala Veen Playing the Role of an Iraqi Nurse, Wadi Al-Sahara, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, CA, 2008 In Hartford overnight for reasons that would take too long...
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Bukowski on File, and Other News
“The FBI kept a file on noted dirty old man Charles Bukowski.” Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose writing inspired the film Escape from Taliban, was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday. “What I am...
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Transcending the Archetypes of War: An Interview with Phil Klay
Photo: Hannah Dunphy In late 2011, Phil Klay, a former Marine officer who served in Iraq during the Surge, published “Redeployment,” a harrowing short story about a group of Marines returning stateside...
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What We’re Loving: Spiders, Spaces, Stinkin’-Hot Nights
An exhibition image from Marc Yankus’s “The Space Between,” at ClampArt. If I had to teach a class on the Framing Device, the first thing I’d make them read is Jeremias Gotthelf’s 1842 novella The...
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Before the Blast
How expats fashion online identities while living in a war zone. A shop owner jokingly points a toy gun at the author in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley. All photos by Deni Ellis Béchard. All wars have...
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Becoming Radicalized: An Interview with John Wray
Valeria Luiselli (left) and John Wray (right) John Wray seems restless under the confines of any single identity. He writes fiction in English and German, carries both a United States and an Austrian...
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Peter Sellars on ‘The Winds of Destiny’
Theater director Peter Sellars has never seen a great work of art that didn’t reflect the madness of modern life. Which for years has driven critics around the bend, who have accused Sellars of...
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Larger than News; Professional M.F.A. People
Hi Mr. Stein. I went to a talk you gave many months ago at McNally Jackson about The Paris Review. You said something that has stayed in my mind, especially now that President Obama has said that we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Bartleby,’ ‘Star Wars,’ and Animal Authors
May Day viewed through the prism of Bartelby the Scrivener. In Afghanistan, women are risking their lives for poetry. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s wall text will now reflect Gertrude Stein’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Your Eyes Deceive You: Claire Beckett at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Marine Lance Corporal Nicole Camala Veen Playing the Role of an Iraqi Nurse, Wadi Al-Sahara, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, CA, 2008 In Hartford overnight for reasons that would take too long...
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Bukowski on File, and Other News
“The FBI kept a file on noted dirty old man Charles Bukowski.” Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose writing inspired the film Escape from Taliban, was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday. “What I am...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Transcending the Archetypes of War: An Interview with Phil Klay
Photo: Hannah Dunphy In late 2011, Phil Klay, a former Marine officer who served in Iraq during the Surge, published “Redeployment,” a harrowing short story about a group of Marines returning stateside...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What We’re Loving: Spiders, Spaces, Stinkin’-Hot Nights
An exhibition image from Marc Yankus’s “The Space Between,” at ClampArt. If I had to teach a class on the Framing Device, the first thing I’d make them read is Jeremias Gotthelf’s 1842 novella The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Before the Blast
How expats fashion online identities while living in a war zone. A shop owner jokingly points a toy gun at the author in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley. All photos by Deni Ellis Béchard. All wars have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Becoming Radicalized: An Interview with John Wray
Valeria Luiselli (left) and John Wray (right) John Wray seems restless under the confines of any single identity. He writes fiction in English and German, carries both a United States and an Austrian...
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Dreams in First-Person Shooter
Still from accompanying video (below), edited by Miles Lagoze and Eric Schuman. A few weeks before our unit’s operation started, Lance Corporal Loya and I stood over a wadi, waiting for each other to...
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