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  • 5 days ago | thebaffler.com | Stephanie Burt |Rafia Zakaria |Abe Beame

    to rule France or anywhere else. No, they are glossy, all-too-humanmarine mammals, unable to communicatewith their captors, till the intrepidat the climax of the film. Some wish they were whales,able to find their tribe—thanksto their ultra-low frequencies—over nearly arbitrarydistances, like early AM radio DJs.No, they are literally DJs, enshrinedin obsolescent studio slang,who couldn’t master microphones,soundboards, and other equipment,however sweet or speedy their on-air patter.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Stephanie Burt

    33,714 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others? 33,714 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Stephanie Burt

    31,281 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others? 31,281 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

  • 2 months ago | clereviewofbooks.com | Stephanie Burt

    I am not qualified to review Ryan Ruby’s Context Collapse: A Poem Containing the History of Poetry. It’s not clear to me that anyone is, given Ruby’s stated goals: his book-length poem attempts to explain the history of poetry and poetics, “retracing the steps we’ve taken to get here” from “the palaces of late Bronze Age kings” to our current all-too-online moment, focusing first on classical antiquity, then on the European Middle Ages, then on French and English.

  • Mar 4, 2025 | msn.com | Stephanie Burt

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