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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...
View ArticleCrepuscoli (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...
View ArticleLast 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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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...
View ArticleSuper 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...
View ArticleSafe 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...
View ArticleThe 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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