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In Search of Zabihollah Mansouri

Was Iran’s most famous translator secretly its most prolific author?
Amir Ahmadi Arian
December 10, 2024
Essays

In the Steps of Yvonne Rainer

What failing dance class taught me about writing
John Haskell
December 10, 2024
Most-Read Prose White Text on a Plum-Colored Background
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Our Most-Read Prose of 2024

December 17, 2024
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The Thought of Movies

Stanley Cavell
January 1, 1983
Essays

The Ragpicker's Way

Among scraps and ruins, an artist gathers a different kind of archive
Edmund de Waal
May 13, 2025
From the Archives

An Open Book

Edmund White
July 1, 1997
Grayscale image of an excavated Cycladic figure face down in the dirt on the island of Keros in July 1967
Essays

Cycladic Figurines and Their Mysteries

An excavation in fragments
Adina Hoffman
September 8, 2025
Essays

What Is a Poetic Novel?

A newly translated manifesto
Hélène Bessette,
translated by Kate Briggs
September 8, 2025
From the Archives

On Some Functions of Literature

Umberto Eco,
translated by Martin McLaughlin
October 1, 2004
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Ibsen the Pioneer

Stella Adler
April 1, 1999