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Supermassive Snapshot

Supermassive Snapshot

Our team was part of the global Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration…

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Susan Daitch on Lydia Lopokova

Susan Daitch on Lydia Lopokova

Snow falling, nutcrackers come to life, swans turning into princesses…

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The first-amendment bubble of big US online media platforms quickly burst…

The first-amendment bubble of big US online media platforms quickly burst…

When free-market elephants like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos take charge of major mass-media outlets, concerns are raised about the direction of free speech…

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Put it in the books!

Put it in the books!

The outfielders adept at prose. At third base and first, essayists. At shortstop and second base, poets…

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No Stone Unturned by Farah Abdessamad

No Stone Unturned by Farah Abdessamad

The ecstasy that accompanies a spiritual experience holds a form of inner displacement; we are born to surpass, to embrace our totality in movement…

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David Beer on Justin E.H. Smith

David Beer on Justin E.H. Smith

Where the emphasis is upon acceleration and instantaneity, longer term thinking is itself a form of resistance…

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The Paradise Parrot was feared to be extinct…

The Paradise Parrot was feared to be extinct…

The extinction of a species is a ghastly thing…

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Winter Warriors

Winter Warriors

Unable to deter the Soviets, France and Britain finally raised a military relief force, too small and too late to impact the outcome…

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John Crutchfield on Elliott Paul Orr

John Crutchfield on Elliott Paul Orr

A friend testifies to the reality of one’s memories. A friend rescues the past from unreality…

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Surfing, Jazz, Beats

Surfing, Jazz, Beats

The writing temperament comes to light as a condition of being. If there was a point, it was learning to read…

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Hypnagogic Experiences

Hypnagogic Experiences

This is rest? This is unconsciousness?

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The In-Between (Diaspora)

The In-Between (Diaspora)

From where is it possible to begin?

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After Literacy

After Literacy

The idea that each of us has a singular voice, and that it places a stamp of authorship on our compositions, is of course corollary to the prohibition on plagiarism…

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Charles Rearick in Popular Paris

Charles Rearick in Popular Paris

Paris has long been the most visited city in Europe, but most of it is not visited. Why not?

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Samuel Jay Keyser on Leonard Bernstein

Samuel Jay Keyser on Leonard Bernstein

Poetry ceased to be metrical, music ceased to be tonal and painting ceased to be mimetic…

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GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS

GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS

Though the twenty-four-hour news cycle has done much to stoke our contemporary ideological divides, the roots of this phenomenon can be situated centuries ago…

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100 Years of Ulysses

100 Years of Ulysses

On February 2 2022, Ulysses turns 100…

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‘Triumphs and Laments’ and ‘Roar’ by Daniel Tobin

‘Triumphs and Laments’ and ‘Roar’ by Daniel Tobin

As though these words were shadows sprayed across a wall of travertine…

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‘The Gentrification Plot’ by Thomas Heise

‘The Gentrification Plot’ by Thomas Heise

It is both impossible to ignore and easy to forget that New York is mostly an archipelago of islands and that its waterfront is the most extensive of any city in the United States…

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