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The reading of a poem is demanding in a way that listening to a song is not. And it is that difficulty that makes poetry more of a counterculture event than even the most avant-garde song, especially given our increasingly limited attention spans.

Kenneth Sherman

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You just can’t look at people in bars and restaurants in Odessa and not imagine them as something out of Babel.

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The Spy Who Loved Me

JULY 17, 2023

Male jealousy, Bond girls, and boozing with your Brah

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Lucian Freud’s Fat Lady Sings

MAY 21, 2019

Flesh, set free by a ‘despicable genius,’ or ensnared in the male gaze?

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A Conversation With Marjorie Perloff

APRIL 1, 2019

The fearlessly outspoken critic and Stanford titan on the contemporary poetry canon, the complexities of O.J. Simpson, and the non-Zen of John Cage

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The Kabbalah of Rothko

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In the gap between transcendental and concrete experience, 48 years after the painter’s death

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Peter Saul Sabotages Everything, Including Himself

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

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Powerless in the Face of Beauty: Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

An exhibit about the cosmetics queen shows at what cost she taught women to power their way through beauty’s slow fade

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Vol. 2, Issue 34: Sept. 15-21 • Yom Kippur readings on Jonah, ‘shnuddering,’ atonement, mortality, and Leonard Cohen; an S.Y. Agnon story; recipes for your break fast, and more

Vol. 2, Issue 33: Sept. 8-14 • Rosh Hashanah, beekeeping, the return of COVID mandates, Babel in Odessa, and more

Vol. 2, Issue 32: Sept. 1-7 • Religion on Zoom and in public schools, a Civil War novel’s underappreciated author, a FIFA bribe exposé, coffee culture, and more

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