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Caroline Tracey
Checkpoint Dreams

An unrealized proposal for a Border Patrol installation in Arizona reveals the tension between restricting immigration and freeing trade.

Sophie Pinkham
Becoming One with Genius

In the translator Jennifer Croft’s new novel, a band of translators from around the world navigates romantic entanglements and their hero worship of an elusive Polish author.

Ratik Asokan
Saint Josef

Josef Koudelka’s photographs register the weight of history.

Domme Song 8

a poem by 
Michael Robbins

You said I had to sleep in the cage
but the smoke alarm
went off and wouldn’t stop so I was like
fuck this
and slept in the other room,
whose love seat
is hardly better than the cage.
But you were pissed…

Christian Caryl
Mourning Navalny

“Navalny—underappreciated as a political innovator—succeeded in finding an approach to democratic politics that would appeal to a new generation of Russians whose lives have been shaped by Putin and who now yearn to imagine alternatives.”

NYRSeminars:
Rachel Cusk, Outline and Second Place

Join Daniel Mendelsohn as he leads a seminar on two works by Rachel Cusk: Outline, which follows its nameless heroine, a writer, as she voyages to Greece to teach a writing class; and Second Place, which tells the story of a writer, isolating in the countryside with her family, who hosts a disturbing visitor.

Four weekly sessions beginning April 3. Purchase your membership here!

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