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JAN MORRIS • In 2016, at age ninety, the Welsh historian and essayist Jan Morris began keeping a diary for the first time. She composed an entry a day (occasionally two) for 188 days, ruminating on history, current affairs, art, and literature alongside matters of old age, love, fellowship, and creature comforts. The following is a selection.
Hilda Hilst • from “TEN OVERTURES TO THE BELOVED”
WAYÉTU MOORE
Five Poems by ‘Antarah ibn Shaddād
BEN MARCUS
LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI
Four Poems by Szilárd Borbély
CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA
EDIE FAKE
HILTON ALS
Maureen N. McLane
KATHARINE KILALEA
Iman Mersal
SHRUTI SWAMY
Jana Prikryl
BENJAMIN NUGENT
Sylvie Baumgartel
Kathy Acker’s Library
Two Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
KIESE LAYMON
Michael Robbins
URSULA K. LE GUIN
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