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Barthelme, the Houstonian

“Barthelme died in 1989, at the age of fifty-eight. I was at college and heard the news from a friend who worked at a Kinko’s to which one of the Barthelme brothers had brought Don Jr.’s will.”

Susan Choi·May 22, 2026

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Building an AI Data Center in Pine Island, Minnesota

“A tech company worth trillions is fighting, hard, to transform Pine Island, a town whose Wikipedia page claims just two notable people: Ralph Samuelson, the inventor of waterskiing, and Lucas Helder, a.k.a. the Midwest Pipe Bomber.”

Thomas John Weber·May 21, 2026

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s “Perte Loss”

“To traverse Cha's archive is to register the force of an artistic imagination that is itself not ‘fixe, mort’ but constantly mutating.”

Katie Kirkland·May 20, 2026

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The Ignorant Art Historian: Sackcloth 1953

“We associate burlap not with art but with use, indeed with waste.”

Hal Foster·May 19, 2026

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When the Confederacy Came to LA

“The nation is splattered with these zombie structures, or sutures, with nowhere to be and no path to total erasure.”

Harmony Holiday·May 1, 2026

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My Friend Bambi

“When the baddest bitch in the room makes you feel seen you never forget it.”

Brontez Purnell·May 4, 2026

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Wolfgang Koeppen’s Structural Musicality

“The man was writing like his typewriter was on fire and in flaming succession produced three books that have been called a trilogy through proximity alone.”

Joshua Cohen·May 4, 2026

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The Ignorant Art Historian: Ice Floes

“This is a river you can’t step in even once.”

Hal Foster·May 5, 2026

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Rotten Dot Com

“Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”

Dena Yago·May 6, 2026

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Elegant Dirty Diary Entry

New books by César Aira, Dylan Gottlieb, Xiao Hai, Maïa Hruska, and Missouri Williams.

Tarpley Hitt and Olivia Kan-Sperling·May 7, 2026

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Sheila Heti on Andrés Felipe Solano’s Gloria

“With certain books, you feel like you started writing them when you were ten years old, and again at twenty-four when you had a certain dream, and again when you wrote the first sentence.”

Sheila Heti·May 12, 2026

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The Ignorant Art Historian: The Blind Man’s Meal

“Perhaps he is tubercular as well as blind. Certainly he is poor.”

Hal Foster·May 12, 2026

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In "Mutual Analysis" with Wallace Shawn's Moth Days

On Wallace Shawn's newest book and the strange shape of his attention.

George Prochnik·May 15, 2026·11 min read

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The Literary Agent's Invisible Hand: Laura B. McGrath on Middlemen

A conversation about what literary agents actually do and why their work is largely invisible.

Rosa Lyster·May 14, 2026·10 min read