The Reluctant Genius of Rudy Burckhardt

The complexity of Burckhardt's work is easy to overlook, because he calls attention to neither his mastery nor his labor.

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Robert Polito: The one-of-a-kind “film investigations” of Manny Farber - Library of America

Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (paperback) This month Library of America restores to print, via a new paperback edition, Farber on Film: The Collected Film Writings of Mann...

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Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

A functioning democracy needs dissent and debate. Trump won the 2024 election with 49.8 percent of the vote (with 77,302,580 total votes) over Kamala Harris’s 48.3 percent (with 75,017,613 total vo…

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Will Frazier: “My Dad’s Memories of David Lynch as a Young Artist”

A high school friend of David Lynch recalls the filmmaker’s early years as budding painter and fraternity brother.

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An ‘SNL’ for the True Bob Dylan Fans

Timothée Chalamet chose the artist’s lesser-known songs when performing last night.

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Sonnet for the Chickens

The picture of elegance, my grandfather. I wanted his photograph in the dictionary.

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Sarah Lewis on Ways of Seeing Race in America

“When it comes to the unspeakable facts in the history of America, it's largely the artists who've been willing to show us what others would not,” the art historian said in an interview with Hyperalle...

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Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Samantha …

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Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment

What Seamus Heaney gave me

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The Art of Fiction No. 36

Author photograph by Gerard Malanga. Firecrackers and whistles sounded the advent of the New Year of 1965 in St. Louis. Stripteasers ran from the bars in Gaslight Square to dance in the street when mi...

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Suzanne and Louise

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Oh, to Own the Lost Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud!

The discovery of a rare picture of the tragic, handsome poet, made by his lover Paul Verlaine, set off a bidding war in Paris.

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Lucy Grealy Understood What It Meant to Be Seen

Three decades later, “Autobiography of a Face,” a sensation when it was published, has lost none of its force.

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Jonathan Griffin: "How Mike Kelley Became Himself"

How class and the counterculture shaped the art of Mike Kelley.

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Contemporary Poets Respond (in Verse) to Taylor Swift

When Taylor Swift announced the title of her new album The Tortured Poets Department at the Grammy Awards in February, a question popped into my mind: How can poets and poetry enter into conversati…

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Suzanne and Louise | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Book Review: ‘Love, Joe,’ by Joe Brainard

The New York City writer and painter Joe Brainard comes alive in a new collection of letters.

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Ray Johnson and Emily Dickinson’s Quiet Correspondence

The elusive correspondence artist saw himself reflected in the writer of enigmatic letters to the world.

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Emma Corrin and Maggie Nelson on the Strength in Vulnerability

The “Nosferatu” actor and the writer discuss solitude, self-editing and the playfulness of their work.

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Garth Greenwell: ‘I didn’t read Middlemarch until my late 30s. Why didn’t someone intervene? ’

The novelist on Virginia Woolf’s luminous prose, obsessively rereading James Baldwin and why Saint Augustine is his favourite writer

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No Ordinary Joe | Daniel Felsenthal

Joe Brainard’s trove of letters leads him down from Mount Olympus on a staircase of his own words.

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