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Poems
“Mr. Cogito and Certain Mechanisms of Memory”
“Suddenly it seems there is nothing more fragile than a landscape”
By Zbigniew Herbert
Dept. of Diminishment
Seeking Display Space for Bones of Sainted Old Men
Amy Surak, the archivist at Manhattan College, in the Bronx, is sifting and sorting through thousands of boxes of relics and floppy disks from shuttered Catholic institutions.
By Eric Lach
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
Sometimes Bobby, Jr., Gets the Bear
Sometimes the bear gets Bobby, Jr.
By Barry Blitt
The Weekend Essay
Inside Out
The magical in-betweenness—and surprising epidemiological history—of the porch.
By David Owen