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“Rich in language, dark in texture, and filled with insight” John Lane’s “Anthropocene Blues” [review by Brent Martin]
It likely got by you in 2016 when a working group for the International Commission on Stratigraphy recommended that the commission vote to accept that we are now in a new geological epoch known…
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The Freight Charges of the 20th century: Teller and Reifensthal by [Andrei Codrescu]
Two evil geniuses of the 20th century died nearly at the same time, after surviving the century that they helped shape: Edward Teller and Leni Riefenstahl [pictured left]. Edward Teller, the father of the…
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“Dutch Interior”: Where Two Davids (Hockney, Lehman) Meet [thanks to Trina Enriquez]
David Hockney at the Tate Gallery in London,David Lehman composing "Dutch Interior" in a winter twilight in Ithaca,and Trinachka (i.e. Trina Enriquez) puts them together.here
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QUEENS OR BUST [by Andrei Codrescu]
If you are moving to New York to do your obligatory two years of poetic apprenticeship among the sophisticated, critical, merciless, and horribly smart (or not) natives, be sure that you move to Queens.…
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Why the Market Plunged, and What Will Happen Next [by David Lehman]
Like everyone else with money in the market, whether directly in shares of common stock or indirectly in mutual funds held in an IRA or a Keogh account, we knew we weren't supposed to…
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Next Line, Please: Come Live With Me and Be My Love
This week on Next Line, Please, writers were asked to write a poem in the form of a string of haikus. As usual, many excellent candidates rolled in, and here are but a few!…
