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The Girl From F&B

The Girl From F&B

Esther studied botany and biochemistry, and ended up serving Cokes to arms dealers in Delhi’s Hotel Shangri-La. She is a station holder, occupied and rootless. Welcome to India Shining.

Siddhartha Deb

Refutation of the Refutation: On Jeff Wall
Has success spoiled the photography and the art of Jeff Wall?
Barry Schwabsky
Posted 07/15/2011
Pakistan v. Pakistan: On Anatol Lieven
For Anatol Lieven, Pakistan is a dangerous, fearsome country, a hard place to live and harder still to govern.
Fatima Bhutto
Posted 07/15/2011

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Protestors at the 2008 Republican National Convention
Unsilenced (Film, Books and the Arts)

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip, Azazel Jacobs’s Terri, Eve Annenberg’s Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish.

Stuart Klawans
Jeff Daniels as Charlie Driggs in Something Wild
Shelf Life: New on DVD (Film, Books and the Arts)

James L. Brooks’s Broadcast News, Alan Rudolph’s Trouble in Mind, Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild.

Akiva Gottlieb
Illustration of David Foster Wallace
The Children's Hospital: On David Foster Wallace (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

Vulnerability was what made David Foster Wallace so beloved, but it often led him to surrender too much in his fiction.

William Deresiewicz

Lyric Nation

Lyric Nation

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Three Poems by Devin Johnston (Lyric Nation)

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"Set Apart," "Early April," "Marco Polo"

Devin Johnston

Three Poems by Ange Mlinko (Lyric Nation)

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"After Sappho (The Volcano)," "The Children's Museum," "Threading the Q"

Ange Mlinko

Three Poems by Jeffrey Yang (Lyric Nation)

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"Abalone," "Eel," "Greed's Prisoner"

Jeffrey Yang

Lingo

Lingo

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The Canting Crew (Lingo, Linguistics, Books and the Arts)

A new edition of The First English Dictionary of Slang is a saucy survey of the rogue jargon of the late seventeenth century.

Ange Mlinko
Out of the Mouths of Birds (Lingo, Linguistics)

Is there a human language without birdsong in it?

Ange Mlinko
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Languaging (Lingo, Linguistics)

Can a second language provide us with a new self?

Ange Mlinko

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