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The Consolations of Failure

Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
June 12, 2023
Susan Sontag, New York, February 2, 1978. Photograph by Richard Avedon. ©The Richard Avedon Foundation.
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Furious Permissions

For Susan Sontag, style was nourishment
Brian Dillon
January 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Finding Proust’s Duchess

Clear-sighted literary commentary, and a guilty-pleasure read
Hollie Harder
July 1, 2018
Books

Nothing Is a Memory

Remembering Bernadette Mayer
Daniel Poppick
March 27, 2023
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The Journalist and the Photographer

Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures
Brian Dillon
March 27, 2023
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The Tim Seibles BOOKBIOBOARDGAME

Tracing a poetic lineage
Terrance Hayes
June 1, 2022
Folio

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
September 1, 2022
Film

White Noise, New and Improved

How Noah Baumbach transformed a classic satire
Christine Smallwood
January 9, 2023
Books

The Mother's Rage

Elena Ferrante and the torment of maternal love
Josh Cohen
February 28, 2023
Folio

The Saunterers’ Club

In pursuit of a more wayward Thoreau
Caleb Smith
May 23, 2023