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From the ‘Odyssey,’ Book I
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Abdo Shanan’s Algerian Photographs
By Kaelen Wilson-GoldieThe photographs in Abdo Shanan’s series “Diary: Exile” (2014–2016) take viewers by the hand and race them through a vertiginous world of gritty, everyday intimacies.
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Arts & Culture
Sorghum
By Bobbie Ann Mason“What’s Daddy doing?” said Melissa, a little silhouette in the dim light of the bedroom doorway. She was dragging her Cabbage Patch-style doll by an arm. "“It’s all right, sugar.” Liz got out of bed and bent down to hug her child.
From the Archive, Issue 107
Fiction
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The Sneaky Brilliance of Geoff Dyer’s “Into the Zone”
By Matt Levin“Into the Zone” is Dyer’s thought, in all its allusiveness and wit and sneaky brilliance, welded inextricably to the rhythms of Stalker.
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From the Archive
Laurel Nakadate and Mika Rottenberg
By Marilyn MinterThe first video I saw by Laurel Nakadate was in P. S. 1 ’s “Greater New York” show in 2005. I was immediately struck by the scene in which she appeared weeping on a New York City rooftop, dressed in a Girl Scout uniform.
From the Archive, Issue 197
Art & Photography
Doggerels
By Samuel Beckettwhat good the eyes / have ill seen / have let escape / close them tight / the fingers the eyes / good is back / better still
From the Archive, Issue 215
Poetry
Freedom
By Rachel CuskIt was growing dark outside, and the rain against the salon’s big windows looked like ink running down a page. The traffic crawled along the blackened road beyond.
