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An Excerpt from Brian Laidlaw’s “Erratica”

“I’ve been working a lot more than I’ve been climbing,” he said. “You?” “Same,” I said. “I hangboarded yesterday. Does that count?” “We can climb the Nose off the couch,” Owen said…

A Conversation with David Biespiel

David Biespiel is a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and painter. The author of over twelve books, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and the recipient…

A Review of Eva Figes’s Nelly’s Version

Circular logic, circular reasoning, and cast shadows people Eva Figes’s 1977 novel of an unreliably narrated account of a woman’s descent into dissociative forgetfulness. Told by a woman—presumably middle-aged, though her age…