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As True Now as It Ever Was
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If Looks Could Kill
Melville House captions this “vintage bookmobile drama,” and we challenge you to imagine exactly what was going through the brunette’s head. Or, more to the point, why.
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Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis
Most people with scholarly inclinations will visit a novelist’s literary archive to follow the paper trails, as manifested through gathered correspondence, stray postcards, marked-upon stationery, and...
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A Public Appeal: Help Me Remember This Book
Assuredly not the book in question. I throw myself on your mercy, readers. For some years now, I have been searching fruitlessly for a long-lost book, and I’m hoping someone out there can help me...
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Time Bandits
The New York Historical Society’s underwhelming time capsule. Photo: New York Historical Society If you enter the New York Historical Society by its Seventy-Seventh Street side entrance, you’ll see...
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No Gate, No Lock, No Bolt
These images are from the Dobkin Family Collection of Feminist History’s exhibition, on display through Saturday, October 24, at Glenn Horowitz Booksellers’ Rare Gallery, in New York. The show takes...
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Hatched in Prison, and Other News
From Gil Batle’s “Jargon” series: carved eggs alluding to the hidden messages that inmates and their friends and families used to avoid censorship by prison staff monitoring their correspondence. The...
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The Right Drink for the Conservative Taste, and Other News
Drink up your propaganda, kids! Today in farts: there’s a new movie called Swiss Army Man, and it’s full of ‘em. Don’t write it off as stupid. Don’t pretend you’re not seduced by the fusillade of...
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The Source Material
Dipping into the thousands of ephemeral films in the Prelinger Archives. Still from Design for Dreaming. There’s a scene in Ed Wood, Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic of the director of Glen or Glenda, that...
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