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Reading Through the Leaves
I was recently asked by a Canadian online magazine to visit with the books on my shelves, to find what I’ve hidden in them over the years—old boarding passes, postcards, grocery lists, a love letter...
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Phantom Limb
Charles Ray’s Hinoki (2007) at the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo: Ed Bierman, via Flickr Some six hundred years ago, a cypress tree fell—perhaps soundlessly—in central California. When the artist...
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Future Library
© Katie Paterson; commissioned by Bjorvika Utvikling and produced by Situations © Katie Paterson © Giorgia Polizzi © Katie Paterson © Katie Paterson Photo © MJC © Giorgia Polizzi Right now, one...
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“I Will Not Be Trifled With!” and Other News
Adolf Emil Hering, Wilhelm II, Deutscher Kaiser, 1910. Finnegans Wake, in all its difficulty, was only “crying out for the invention of the web, which would enable the holding of multiple domains of...
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August in the Apple Orchard
Charles-François Daubigny, Orchard, 1865-69George Bradley’s poem “August in the Apple Orchard” appeared in our Summer 1980 issue. Bradley’s most recent collection is 2011’s A Few of Her Secrets.It...
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Beneath the Yew Tree’s Shade
In the first of three excerpts from The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, Thomas Laqueur explores the necrobotany of the yew tree, “the tree of the dead”—found in churchyards...
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Brushfire at Christmas
This holiday season, remember the critical importance of fire safety.“Brushfire at Christmas,” a poem by Judy Longley, appeared in our Spring 1996 issue. Arkansas, 1993—for Lawrence, my brotherI’ve...
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Baxter Week, Day Three
Our celebration of Glen Baxter proceeds apace. To mark the release of his new book Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings, we’re running two of his illustrations every day this week....
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The Museum of Broken Relationships, and Other News
I hear you’re moving to Buffalo to pursue a more affordable, creative, authentic life in the smoldering remains of the Rust Belt. That’s neat. But what are you buying into, really? In cities like...
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The Empress of Gowanus
Two trees grow in Brooklyn.Empress tree.Lately I’ve come to love the empress trees that stand at either end of the Union Street Bridge, which crosses the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn. The pair aren’t...
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Venus of the Woods
Celebrating the history of the beloved ash tree.Charles May, The Old Ash, photograph, 1863.As a small child, my mother was taken to the Lake District, in the hope that she would have a better chance of...
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West Ridge
Claire Sherman’s exhibition, “West Ridge,” is at DC Moore Gallery in New York through November 5. Sherman’s latest paintings focus on what she calls “unraveling environments,” depicting archetypes of...
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Carved in Wood
Our newest correspondent, Merritt Tierce, is writing about “the varieties of obscurity.” First up: a fateful trip to Greece leads her to the Museum of Wooden Sculptures.Giorgis Koutantos, The Combing.I...
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Cows, Clouds, and Apple Trees
Lois Dodd’s early paintings (1958–66) are showing at Alexandre Gallery through March 18. Dodd, who is eighty-nine, helped to found New York’s artist-run Tanager Gallery in the fifties, when it was one...
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The Case for Seasonal Sentimentality
All original illustrations © Mary Laura Philpott. There’s a line in Nora Ephron’s 1983 novel Heartburn: “Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn and I’ll show you a real...
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Women in Trees
The tension between trees and female disobedience is biblical. After succumbing to the snake’s suggestion and partaking of an apple from a tree, Eve gets some bad news: her body will bring her shame...
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Brushfire at Christmas
This holiday season, remember the critical importance of fire safety. “Brushfire at Christmas,” a poem by Judy Longley, appeared in our Spring 1996 issue. Arkansas, 1993—for Lawrence, my brother I’ve...
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Baxter Week, Day Three
Our celebration of Glen Baxter proceeds apace. To mark the release of his new book Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings, we’re running two of his illustrations every day this week....
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The Museum of Broken Relationships, and Other News
I hear you’re moving to Buffalo to pursue a more affordable, creative, authentic life in the smoldering remains of the Rust Belt. That’s neat. But what are you buying into, really? In cities like...
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The Empress of Gowanus
Two trees grow in Brooklyn. Empress tree. Lately I’ve come to love the empress trees that stand at either end of the Union Street Bridge, which crosses the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn. The pair aren’t...
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