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Munch's cosmic use of color and John Glenday's poem of flight before the fall

Framing and our fleeting grasps at high ideas in Anton Chekhov’s “Little Trilogy”

Possession and determination in Jorie Graham’s “One in the Hand” and a scientific study of body awareness in birds

Disapproval and romance in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and John Ashbery's "Homecoming"

Empathy for the observed in Edvard Munch's portraits and Lucy Ives's "Poem"

The local and the universal in Zadie Smith's "Two Men Arrive in a Village" and David Foster Wallace's "Another Pioneer"

Dashes and vacancies in Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" and Tracy K. Smith's "Declaration"