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Tooth Skin
Fiction
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October 10, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Pacific | Fiction
A short story by Ismail Ibrahim from Issue Eighteen.
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October 10, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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“Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” by ZZ Packer
Fiction, from 2000: “Black people didn’t knock on strangers’ doors, crying. Not that I understood the black people at Yale.”
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October 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Anne Carson · Poem: ‘The Albertine Workout’
8. The problems of Albertine are (from the narrator’s point of view) a) lying b) lesbianism, and (from Albertine’s...
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October 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Anne Carson · On Rosalía
We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...
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October 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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“Children Love Beautiful Things Just Like Adults Do”: An Interview With the Montessori School Head Teacher on Going Viral for Its Style
“[Children] can grow up in a beautiful place and know that those things are important,” says Stephanie Woo, head of Ms. Lam Montessori School.
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October 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Anne Carson’s Ecstatic Minimalism
The new Nobel laureate uses finely wrought forms to constrain a terrible excess of feeling.
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October 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Visitors Rev. 4
‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’
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October 10, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Video: Opinion | Stalin Boys
Middle school introduces us to complicated history. These kids wrote a play about Joseph Stalin.
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October 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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Secret Billionaires, Mafia Brides, Alpha Kings: The Insane World of Microdramas
Vertical soap operas for your phone have taken over film and TV production, and they may soon need no humans at all.
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October 7, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Yiyun Li on Stories That Happen Twice
The author discusses her story “Calm Sea and Hard Faring.”
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October 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
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October 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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I’m Calling for a Pause in the Development of the Universal Bone Dissolver
A recent incident has raised my concerns: Last month, the Bone Dissolver unexpectedly dissolved a number of bones.
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October 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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“Calm Sea and Hard Faring,” by Yiyun Li
The children, two by two, walked into the woods solemnly, the hurricane lamp swinging, the light vanishing and then returning.
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October 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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“The Blight,” by Emma Cline
You weighed the future anger of others against the present trouble, and then you pretty much said, O.K. Kick the can down the road.
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October 1, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Min Jin Lee Reads a Chapter From the Bible Every Day Before She Writes - Electric Literature
The AMERICAN HAGWON author on many shitty drafts, pleasing the ancestors, and finding answers to her questions
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September 30, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore
Read Shaad D’Souza’s review of the album.
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September 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Why America Looks the Way It Does
From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property.
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September 29, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr
Poets on poetry's role in the political landscape.
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September 28, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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A Blank Space
Fame, terror, and Taylor Swift’s Theory of Existence
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September 26, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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‘The Hater From Feeld,’ by Lauren Oyler
The first installment of a six-part serialized short story.
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September 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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My review of Kristen Gleason's THE WALLET AND OTHER THEFTS is out today.

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Strange Details Accumulate: On Kristen Gleason’s /The Wallet and Other Thefts/ — Delicatessen
Kristen Gleason, The Wallet and Other Thefts . Fonograf Editions, 2026. 183 Pages. Reading Kristen Gleason's The Wallet and Other Thefts feels a little like being robbed. I would know: it happene...
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September 25, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
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September 24, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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Generous Opacities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s wide-ranging art practice is on display in a traveling retrospective.
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September 21, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Girls
‘I was alone driving from the East Coast of Florida to Joshua Tree, in California. That was a normal thing to do after a breakup.’
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September 20, 2026 at 7:46 PM