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Black Dog

“The bond felt so strong I just didn’t want to let go.”

interviews Eddie Peng about his role in Guan Hu’s new film—and the canine friend he made in the process.

Jenny Holzer

The monument is the message.

on what goes said and unsaid in Jenny Holzer’s *Light Line* at the Guggenheim Museum.

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Elevator Music

Making sense of one hundred years of noise.

delivers a history of the music we always hear but never listen to. This piece was originally published on [Supernormal](https://daytenrose.substack.com/).

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A Taxonomy of Background Music

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Enter Night Gallery.

in conversation with [Josh Zoerner](https://joshuazoerner.com/).

Merch is Forever

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A formally inventive satire of the reject class.

on Tony Tulathimutte’s *[Rejection](https://bookshop.org/p/books/rejection-fiction-tony-tulathimutte/20988157?ean=9780063337879&next=t&affiliate=114129)*.

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Re: Rejection

Greenwell

“How do we get the world on the page?”

interviews novelist and poet [Garth Greenwell](https://twitter.com/GarthGreenwell) about his latest novel *Small Rain*, out now from Macmillan.


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J Walk

"Art is made, and people descend on it."

and [Nazareno Crea](https://nazareno.nyc/) unspool a typographic saga in Manhattan’s East Village.

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Operation Match

The original dating app.

The following is an excerpt of Operation Match: Jeff Tarr and the Invention of Computer Dating by Patsy Tarr, out today, September 3rd, from 2wice Books.

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