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My mamaw used to say, ‘I thought life was just one damned thing after another until I realized it’s the same damned thing ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

About a month ago, at the Museum of Modern Art, I attended a performance of John Cage’s 4’33”. I’d read about its famous silence, but because I’d never sat in a theater and experienced that silence, ...

My friend gave me the packet of letters to keep, and I knew that one day I would try to make something out of it.” ...

When I was twenty years old, I became a kind of apprentice to a man named Andrew Lytle, whom pretty much no one apart from his negligibly less ancient sister, Polly.

October 16, 2023 – On finding a version of heaven—or, perhaps, life—in Red Dead Redemption 2.

April 5, 2021 – Before he became the legendary director and screenwriter Billy Wilder, Billie Wilder was a scrappy and widely published journalist in Berlin and Vienna.

February 29, 2024 – Reality TV magnates Chip and Joanna Gaines bought Larry McMurtry’s collection of 300,000 books and put it in a Waco Hotel they're redesigning. Our reporter visited.

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