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from The Book of the Red King
Marly Youmans’ chronicle of a fool in search of his king is a rollicking tour through the traditions of English literature and the pleasures of the language itself. Introducing her hero she writes, “He shakes his rattle at the dark/And fills his antic hat with leaves.”
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Where His Lines Run
Starting from a six-sentence obituary that ran in 1855, Adam Tavel crafts a riveting sequence of letters and monologues invoking suicide, infidelity, race, and the “bent trumpet of grief” that echoes over generations.
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Claire Denis Film Scores – 1996 to 2009
Tindersticks have scored six of Claire Denis’ films, a collaboration unique on the indie side of the rock and film world. Stuart Staples talks about the origin and effect of a long partnership and explains why you won’t see the band in the credits of the Avatar sequel.
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Lisa M. Robinson
On the eve of her highly anticipated show Oceana, Lisa M. Robinson talks with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching about the challenges of capturing the subtle transitions of water, air and earth with her new body of photographic work.
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Six Poems from Five Poets
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Jimmmy Santiago Baca, Erica Dawson, Patrick Donnelly, and Thom Satterlee cover parenthood, addiction, sex, love, and more in At Length’s first-ever poetry issue.
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Holyoke Fences
“The moment still life painting shifted to accommodate pouring wine, a spun coin, candle flame, the entire snowy field at dusk. Do you have the time?” Why yes, Zach Savich, we do. Read this excerpt from his new lyric memoir, Events Film Cannot Withstand.
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Famous Battles
When his wife’s old flame returns to their Georgia hometown, a veteran finds himself waging a primordial fight. History and myth, North and South, civilization and nature all clash in this gripping story by Matthew Harrison.
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Bay
“Easement to/estuaries,” begins Michael D. Snediker, searching for persuasive images of relief in river clay and stoneware, bottles, stars and Cygnus, who “Found/no body//but felt—//again and/again—//the body’s warmth.”
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Electric Fruit
Mary Halvorson may be the future of jazz guitar, but her future might not be in jazz. She talks about Electric Fruit–her newest trio release with Weasel Walter and Peter Evans–crossing musical boundaries, and how planets can really mess up your life.
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from Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
Kevin Young recreates the letters and speeches of the Amistad rebels, probing their relationship to a white culture that both enslaved and liberated them. An excerpt from Young’s brilliant new book, which was 20 years in the making.
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Atomic Clock
“We fail and fail and grow desirous of believing we’re all vehicle, every wet atom of us.” Kerri Webster’s prose poem draws on place and prayer, fit and ache, showing how the world “lends the appearance of appearing like something else.”
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Susan Bright
Susan Bright, previously the assistant curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (London), is an accomplished freelance curator and writer. She talks with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching about her second book Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography.
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Art in the Airport
Tyler Meier and Joyelle McSweeney open up the terminals, concourses, and gates of two American airports, where Lichtenstein and Smithson loom large.
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The Cuddler
Is perfect sex on the perfect piece of furniture really too much to ask? A new story from Trillium Book Award finalist Emily Schultz.
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Solos
Matthew Friedberger, one half of the sibling nucleus of The Fiery Furnaces, talks about about his new recording series, Solos, in which he uses six different instruments to create six different albums, and his perversely scrupulous compulsion to leave audiences unsatisfied.