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Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. Her writing has appeared in publications such as friezeArtforum, Bookforum, Granta, n+1, BOMB, Mousse, Flash Art and art-agenda, and she is currently and editor at e-flux journal. Her first novel, Oval, was published by Soft Skull in 2019. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and a 2020 fellow at the Berggruen Institute.

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Kids in the Field

ESSAY

March 2020

ELVIA WILK

ESSAY

March 2020

As we cross the border, the smooth, four-lane Mexican highway collapses into a winding, undivided, pockmarked road. Scraggly underbrush takes the place of manicured...
Oval

FICTION

March 2019

ELVIA WILK

FICTION

March 2019

The gym was crowded, so crowded there was a line forming at the showers, so many white bodies so close to each other, so...

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October 2012

Crown of Thorns Starfish

Caspar Henderson

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October 2012

If you look into infinity what do you see? Your backside!  –Tristan Tzara   The drug-addict, drunk, wife-shooter and...

Essay

Issue No. 18

The Disquieting Muses

Leslie Jamison

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   In Within Heaven and Hell (1996), Ellen Cantor’s voice-over tells the story of a doomed love affair...

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Issue No. 7

On a Decline in British Fiction

Jennifer Hodgson

Patricia Waugh

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Issue No. 7

‘The special fate of the novel,’ Frank Kermode has written, ‘is always to be dying.’ In Britain, the terminal...

 

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