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How She Knows

Penelope Fitzgerald’s shifting reputation. From the cover of Hermione Lee’s Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life. Penelope Fitzgerald would have been ninety-eight today. We should mark the occasion by...

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Crepuscoli (Twilights)

Errata Corrige #2234, 2013, vintage book, inks, nails on wood panel. In a new show at Rome’s Sara Zarin Gallery, the Russian-born artist Ekaterina Panikanova presents work composed of old books, which...

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Last Exit

I plan to exit from my house before the end of the fiscal year. No, I don’t mean I intend to leave it, physically. I’m here in my basement, as I always have been, and where would I go? But I will...

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Upon Knowing I Must Soon Depart

Hummingbird. No, not dying. Not just yet.* But already, still at home, the feeling of jet lag begins. Time seems omnipresent, yet too brief. Birthday presents are opened early. I stare at the bag from...

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Super Sad Woman

On Madeleine Bourdouxhe’s La femme de Gilles. From the cover of Melville House’s new edition of La femme de Gilles. It’s probably not unusual to read a novel whose protagonist bears your own name if...

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Safe as Houses

On Max Ophüls’s 1949 noir, The Reckless Moment. Joan Bennett in The Reckless Moment.   What makes a thriller “domestic,” anyway? Broadly speaking, it takes place in a house. Domestic thrillers are...

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The Alley Cats of Istanbul

Still from Kedi.   If you love something, you let it go. Cat people understand this intuitively. You never quite possess a cat, and the sooner you acknowledge that, the better. Cats will chase the...

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How She Knows

Penelope Fitzgerald’s shifting reputation. From the cover of Hermione Lee’s Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life. Penelope Fitzgerald would have been ninety-eight today. We should mark the occasion by...

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Crepuscoli (Twilights)

Errata Corrige #2234, 2013, vintage book, inks, nails on wood panel. In a new show at Rome’s Sara Zarin Gallery, the Russian-born artist Ekaterina Panikanova presents work composed of old books, which...

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Last Exit

I plan to exit from my house before the end of the fiscal year. No, I don’t mean I intend to leave it, physically. I’m here in my basement, as I always have been, and where would I go? But I will...

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Upon Knowing I Must Soon Depart

Hummingbird. No, not dying. Not just yet.* But already, still at home, the feeling of jet lag begins. Time seems omnipresent, yet too brief. Birthday presents are opened early. I stare at the bag from...

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Super Sad Woman

On Madeleine Bourdouxhe’s La femme de Gilles. From the cover of Melville House’s new edition of La femme de Gilles. It’s probably not unusual to read a novel whose protagonist bears your own name if...

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Safe as Houses

On Max Ophüls’s 1949 noir, The Reckless Moment. Joan Bennett in The Reckless Moment.   What makes a thriller “domestic,” anyway? Broadly speaking, it takes place in a house. Domestic thrillers are...

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The Alley Cats of Istanbul

Still from Kedi.   If you love something, you let it go. Cat people understand this intuitively. You never quite possess a cat, and the sooner you acknowledge that, the better. Cats will chase the...

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