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Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe (2018)

Extreme, Extreme! The literature of laughing gas. (2014)

Against Rereading

The Private Life: On James Baldwin

The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram

Televised Music Is a Pointless Rigmarole (1968)

At the Webster Apartments

Scrabble, Anonymous

A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)

The Institute for Illegal Images

The Life and Times of "The Paris Metro"

Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group

Sometimes a Little Bullshit Is Fine: A Conversation with Charles Simic

The Sphere

Postcards from Elizabeth Bishop

Kurt Vonnegut's House Is Not Haunted

At Sea: On the defunct language of nautical flags (2016)

And Alexander Wept (2020)

The Language of Lava Lamps

Hello, World Part One: Eliza (2022)

J. G. Ballard’s brilliant, “not good” writing

Looking for Virginia Woolf’s Diaries

Fernando Pessoa’s Unselving

In This Essay I Will: On Distraction

East of the Sun and West of the Moon: The Art of Kay Nielsen (2015)

Anti-Ugly Action

The Lawn Is Resting: A Visit to Balzac’s House

Trespassing on Edith Wharton

The Dress Diary of Mrs. Anne Sykes

“The Dead Silence of Goods”: Annie Ernaux and the Superstore

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