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Stieglitz

He’s old, Stieglitz is, when I’m looking at this photograph in my dining room. It’s one hundred and forty-three years since he was born, but he’s still hunched over his desk in his little, crowded gallery like he was when … Read More

by Zack Newick on December 4, 2008March 17, 2013

175 Centimeters

“Click. Click. Click.”

by Max Greenwald on April 3, 2017April 8, 2017

The Making of Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson has always been a divisive filmmaker. There are those who revere him and those who think all his films are simultaneously overwrought and underdeveloped. But whatever you may think of him, it is hard to deny that he … Read More

by Zack Newick on October 20, 2010March 17, 2013

The Bucket

At 99 years old, Poppa is more scowl than man. Death it seems has forgotten about him, letting him linger and decay far past what can be natural. His life, far past being led, is endured and he swears to … Read More

by Zach Portnoy on March 23, 2011March 17, 2013

La Jolie Sorcière

“As my eyes traced the fabric on the seat, I wondered what bébé Claude would think if he knew we were mingling with his murderer.”

by Arrey Enow on March 28, 2024March 29, 2024

The Last Accident of a Life

There was a bit of marinara sauce spilled out on the counter in a cluster of islands. Four blotches of red, decreasing in size and arcing away from the stovetop like Hawaii. The sauce was cold and was slowly drying … Read More

by Zack Newick on April 28, 2010March 17, 2013

Gushman

I told the army that my father was abusing my mother and that I had to stay home to protect her. This girl whose job it was to check out these kinds of things arrived at our apartment. It was … Read More

by Dov Kaufmann on April 28, 2010March 17, 2013

The First Sentence

Returning to a moment before memory.

by Takim Williams on October 12, 2015October 12, 2015

The Story about a War and Some Other Things

“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”

by Lara Katz on February 14, 2021February 13, 2021

Ice Cream for Two

“I remember thinking, wow, isn’t this so picturesque, isn’t this so magnificent, isn’t this so exquisite.”

by Rebecca Cao on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

Faking Wes Anderson

“The editor of Analecta, the official literary and arts journal of the University of Texas at Austin, was flipping through some old volumes when she came across the writings of former UT student and current filmmaker Wes Anderson. Published in … Read More

by Dan Abromowitz on October 20, 2010March 17, 2013

Signs of Damage

“He looked nice, shy. She didn’t say hello, or smile, because despite her costume—a lace trimmed slip and her grandmother’s pearl choker—she didn’t care much that day.”

by Laila Hartman-Sigall on March 28, 2025


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