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A sneak peek at our summer issue! Inside: unpublished Annie Ernaux journals (plus a print-exclusive piece), essays by Namwali Serpell and Samuel Moyn, and a folio, “What Was AI?”—because by the time you read this, the answer will have changed. Subscribe: https://t.co/VjqnD8Yyly

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"Death flies in, thin bureaucrat, from the plains –
a one-way passenger, again."

From Agha Shahid Ali's "Muharram in Srinagar, 1992" a poem from TYR Archives, originally published in 1995: https://t.co/rmCEBxHt82

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"Our hands won't return to us, not even mutilated, when
Death comes – thin bureaucrat – from the plains."

From Agha Shahid Ali's "Muharram in Srinagar, 1992" a poem from TYR Archives, originally published in 1995: https://t.co/rmCEBxHt82

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"Death flies in, thin bureaucrat, from the plains –
a one-way passenger, again."

From Agha Shahid Ali's "Muharram in Srinagar, 1992" a poem from TYR Archives, originally published in 1995: https://t.co/rmCEBxHt82

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"It reminded me that Welsh was ours. I simply needed a new key to the door." Dan Fox on learning his family's language.
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"People think divorce is a failure. For me it was an achievement." Anahid Nersessian on her divorce.
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“I feel no hatred for this beautiful woman.
Nor hatred for the dead man
for having left me. I have my sins

toward him with which to contend.”

—Lorrie Goldensohn, “Curious, I Go to Her Website” https://t.co/VgOuCi0R66

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Three weeks after the surrender of Nazi German, on May 29, 1945, Thomas Mann delivered the speech "Germany and the Germans" at the Library of Congress.

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"I believe we have the best chance of future interest if we write as intensely as possible for the present." —Samuel R. Delany
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"To persist in caring about books, and to do so in the face of those who tell us not to, is to fight for a world that takes knowledge seriously." —Sheila Liming
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Join us at McNally Jackson Seaport for our Summer Issue Launch Party — Friday June 5, 6–8 PM. Readings from Nell Freudenberger, Sarah Thankam Mathews, and Audrey Wollen. RSVP:
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"All great writers are great colorists, just as they are musicians into the bargain; they always contrive to make their scenes glow and darken and change to the eye." Virginia Woolf, from the archives.
https://t.co/c8tU1eWJ7y

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“My stomach plunging in dread,
I go to the website of the dead woman
who broke up my marriage in 1968.”

—Lorrie Goldensohn, “Curious, I Go to Her Website” https://t.co/VgOuCi0R66

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Coming out of hibernation to yell THE BOOK IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE BOOK in this little Yale Review essay I wrote

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"Without the medium, the connection between speaker and listener is broken, and the line goes dead." Sheila Liming on books, Derrida, and what libraries are for.
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"Reading is not just an exercise in empathy or in broadening our ideas; it's no mere thought experiment. It is also something that happens to the body." Samanta Schweblin on what reading does to us.
https://t.co/I16eTOmyMn

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“My stomach plunging in dread,
I go to the website of the dead woman
who broke up my marriage in 1968.”

“Curious, I Go to Her Website,” by Lorrie Goldensohn, TYR’s Poem of the Week: https://t.co/VgOuCi0R66

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"Books are fantasies. They're there to remind me of my own desire for more knowledge." Sheila Liming on why she keeps the books she hasn't read.
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"Words struggle, in a way, to express some deep essence of our existence. They seem to slide off the surface all too often." David Szalay on the limits of language.
https://t.co/ddzKrHxTbO

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"There were times when the missing half seemed to speak louder than the books I held in my hands." Sheila Liming on "deaccessioning," Edith Wharton's ghost library, and what a book preserves that a text alone can't.
https://t.co/5qgQ4nkYpG

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"We may be heading into something less fatal but more depressingly entrenched than fascism." Rana Dasgupta on the future of democracy.
https://t.co/D1ouch1qls