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Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling’s “The Nice State”
Through the 1959 session of the Louisiana state legislature, Governor Earl Lengthy, the much less well-known youthful brother of Senator Huey Lengthy, “went...
Emma Allen on Otto Soglow’s Spot Artwork
The New Yorker doesn’t simply let go of the previous stuff. Just lately, our copy division retired the hyphen we’d saved in “in-box”...
Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy’s “One Contact of Nature”
I first encountered Mary McCarthy not via her novels or criticism however via her political reporting. A former editor really helpful that I...
Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop’s “On the Fishhouses”
On August 9, 1947, The New Yorker devoted practically a full web page to one of many nice poems of the 20th century....
Edwidge Danticat on Jamaica Kincaid’s “Woman”
As ladies, we might discover it tough to image our moms—particularly if they're stern Caribbean moms—as something apart from the poised girls they’re...