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Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby is a writer based out of Berlin. His work has appeared in The Baffler, Conjunctions, Dissent, n+1, and elsewhere. He has translated Roger Caillois and Grégoire Bouillier from the French for Readux Books. The Zero and the One, his debut novel, was published by Twelve in March 2017.

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The Album (detail), by Édouard Vuillard, 1895. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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The Accidental Avant-Gardist

Raymond Roussel’s lonely place in literary history. More

The Rue Mosnier with Flags (detail), by Édouard Manet, 1878. Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program.

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The Ambassadors’ Plot

The American abroad, from James to Highsmith and Ozick. More

Detail from “Big Fish Eat Little Fish,” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, engraving by Pieter van der Heyden, 1557.

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The Long History of a Short Form

The aphorism, from Hippocrates to Maggie Nelson. More