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for Paul Auster Days emptied out along the hairlinecracks where you spilled the glossy oilwhere you stopped resemblance from looking,where your thoughts, if they were thoughts,ghost things of the mind, dream things of the night,fell down and down to the last rock under the pile,the final colorless span, making no sound or onlythe sound that […]

So-called feminine hygiene products are self-effacing by design. Imperceptibility—the “no feel protection” advertised by Always pads, the “made to go unnoticed” tagline of Tampax—is the gold standard, or at least the chimerical promise, of the various absorbent or fluid-capturing products put in or near vaginas on days when effluent from the uterus is expected. Devices […]

Ed Atkins’s Pianowork 2 is a sixteen-minute computer animation that involves an uncannily realistic digital avatar of Atkins playing Jürg Frey’s minimalist piano composition “Klavierstück 2.” (I saw Pianowork 2 at the Gladstone Gallery late last year, and it will presumably be included in the Atkins exhibition that the Tate Britain is planning for 2025.)1 […]

Ralph Waldo Emerson was endlessly seeking his ideal writer, who was “part and particle of God,” as he wrote in Nature (1836). So it comes as no surprise that in the spring of 1838 he embraced the poet Jones Very, a twenty-four-year-old Greek tutor studying at the Harvard Divinity School, and soon hailed him as […]

The instantly notorious exchange in a congressional hearing on December 5 between Representative Elise Stefanik and the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology laid bare once again the fragility of our collective commitment to free speech. Stefanik repeatedly asked the presidents whether a student calling for the genocide […]

As World War II was drawing to a close, Edmund Wilson attracted considerable attention with a pair of New Yorker articles in which he undertook to demolish any claim of crime fiction to literary merit: “Why Do People Read Detective Stories?” (1944) and “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” (1945).1 A controversy over popular reading […]

The door of his dressing room opened and I was about to say something to Leonard Bernstein, though I had no idea what. I was fourteen years old, a nervy kid from the sticks with embarrassing eyeglasses, but Bernstein’s smile, as he inched his way through the assembled crowd, radiated reassurance. Next thing I knew […]

I was talking to a builderof bridges and askedhow he built the structurethat brings two warring elementstogether. This was his answer.What is a bridge?A land divided, or the gapbetween? Most see a unitywrought through necessityand compromise, mutualrespect, or cohabitation.But he was interested in the spaceseparating these two landsthat perhaps are one hope.And thinking of the […]

Movie history is haunted by Proust adaptations that never came to be. The actor and producer Nicole Stéphane spent twenty-one years trying to find a director to take him on. “I wrote to the lady-producer that no real filmmaker would allow himself to squeeze the madeleine as though it were a lemon and in my […]

Emoji, tapbacks, and thumbs-ups were devised to spare your time and attention. Now they’ve become a chore.

The Pentagon’s draft CMMC rule doesn’t exempt small firms from the security standards for defense contractors and subcontractors, but that doesn’t mean they won’t receive any help meeting the requirements.

At U-Haul, we believe that your ability to drive a midsize sedan qualifies you to drive a ten-thousand-pound box truck. But why stop there? We are proud to introduce new and extreme rental options that will make moving as stressful as possible.

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By Eli Yudin Published: January 18th, 2024

If you didn’t already associate Subway with footlong foods, the sandwich chain is making sure you will now. Subway has announced the introduction of a whole new menu category, Sidekicks, which includes a footlong cookie, footlong churro, and footlong pretzel. Why should sandwiches have all the fun?

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - JANUARY 17: Reece Beekman #2 of the Virginia Cavaliers defends Sean Pedulla #3 of the Virginia Tech Hokies in the first half during a game at John Paul Jones Arena on January 17, 2024 in Charlottesville, Virginia. | Photo by Ryan M. Kelly/Getty Images

An interesting evening around the conference

As AI disrupts SEO, ethical risks emerge. Learn best practices for transparent AI use and the human role in automation.

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This is one of the only photos from LIDOM I can use, and it’s from 2005.

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Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco have a packed slate all about the Kansas City Royals for you today! What is Frank White doing now, and why? How is Amazon bringing the Royals to your TV? Lastly, Jeremy and Jacob start an offseason series, projecting the organizational depth of this team. They start with the starting pitching, featuring Kansas City’s prospective ace and a few prospects to boot!

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Possibly the best team that never won it all

To celebrate Clareville Kiosk’s four-decade run, owner Nathan Boler is putting duck spring rolls and salt and pepper slipper lobster back on the menu.

Before you splash out, stop and ask yourself, do you really need that bottled lemon juice or packet of pre-chopped vegetables?