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Laptop nonfiction

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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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I am reading an owl’s obituary.

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Cicada, Cicada

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"Make me miss you."

in conversation with [Sowmya Krishnamurthy](https://twitter.com/SowmyaK).

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Fashion Killa

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"The doors locked behind you, glowing quietly fluorescent with goodbyes."

on rip-offs, ghosts, and entering blankness.

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My Movie Theater: Grace Byron

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Feel the rumble.

on our centuries-old obsession with frequency.

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Low vibrations

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Hey big head.

gets to the bottom of an unsettling image.

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Amélie’s poster

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Pure Putumayo.

on the handicrafts empire that turned to sonic exploration. 

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The Sound of Everything

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On the standout brutalist house featured in the well-polished dark comedy "Amanda."

speaks to *Amanda*'s director and production designer about modernist architecture, art, and longing for friendship.

The home’s grey concrete exterior darkens at nighttime and further blends into its surroundings; Courtesy of the Criterion Channel / I Wonder Pictures.

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An Italian island of concrete

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Sail away, sail away, sail away...

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