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                      Cover of Winter 2026


                      Winter 2026

                      Archive

                      FEATURES

                      A Heartbreaking Work of Swaggering Genius

                      OMARI WEEKES ON NAMWALI SERPELL’S STUDY OF TONI MORRISON

                      Father Knows Best

                      CHARLOTTE SHANE ON DANIEL BERRIGAN’S SPIRITUAL RADICALISM

                      Hard Boiled

                      LIZZY HARDING ON ANTHONY BOURDAIN’S LIFE IN FICTION AND THE KITCHEN

                      FICTION AND POETRY

                      ANAHID NERSESSIAN: Kay Gabriel’s Perverts

                      GERALD HOWARD: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

                      KIERAN PRESS-REYNOLDS: Anika Jade Levy’s Flat Earth

                      MICHAEL ROBBINS: reading Balzac in Paris

                      INTERVIEW

                      CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN talks with A. S. Hamrah

                      NONFICTION

                      ANDREW CHAN: Stephanie Burt’s Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift and Maggie Nelson’s The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift

                      PRUDENCE PEIFFER: Marie-Laure Bernadac’s Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois

                      HARMONY HOLIDAY: James Van Der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead

                      ELIAS ALTMAN: Jen Percy’s Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

                      GREG CWIK: Melissa Anderson’s The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012–2024

                      ERIKA BALSOM: Catherine Breillat’s I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet

                      MARY TURFAH: Wasim Said’s Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza

                      CELESTE MARCUS: Julia Ioffe’s Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

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