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The Art of Fiction No. 262
By Jhumpa Lahiri“I seldom know where I’m headed, but if the story is meant to be, you cross over to the other side—you’re inside it, and there’s an engine.”
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Interviews
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Making of a Poem: Maureen N. McLane on “Haptographic Interface”
By Maureen N. McLane“The speaker is a kind of Keats-bot, perhaps.”
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On Poetry
An Eye in the Throat
By Samanta Schweblin“My father and I will remember everything from this moment on with the sharpness of an alarm that neither of us will ever be able to turn off again.”
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Fiction
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The Art of the Libretto: John Adams
By Sophie Haigney“I wanted to write my own Messiah.”
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On Music
Consecutive Preterite
By Jessica Laser“That summer I learned Biblical Hebrew / with Christian women heaving themselves / toward ministry one brick building at a time.”
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Poetry
hasten slowly and you shall soon arrive
By Julian Talamantez Brolaski“the angels might get so sad / knowing what I do”
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Poetry
Passages
By Chris Oh“The paintings in Passages re-create, on the marbled inner covers of antique books, seven scenes by the sixteenth-century artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder and his son, Pieter Brueghel the Younger.”