Of course Poetry Genius has the poem that mayor-elect Bill de Blasio said made him fall in love with Chirlane McCray.

Joshua Cohen profiles Slavoj Žižek for New York. We weep tears of happiness.

“Steve Roggenbuck would horrify the Jonathan Franzens of the world.” – Gawker

“Frazier is a master of voices, especially his own.” – Casey N. Cep on Ian Frazier. 

Appalachia is so hot right now.

Portraits of well-known Gilded Age socialites.

John Freeman on interviewing authors at The Paris Review. 

Norman Rockwell’s heroes of the Second World War.

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