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These abstractions date from 1958–62, and you can feel in them the figurative works from before and where Freilicher took them later. Thus, these are bridge works, some with, as Molly Taylor of the gallery put it to me on my viewing, “a tickle of figuration.” Indeed, some sort of tickle went through me instantly upon my entering and did not leave, even on my departure.

The last manual typewriter, after 150 years of commercial production, was manufactured in the UK in 2012. Yet like all design classics, it refuses to lie down and die. There is a roaring trade in old models on eBay, and dealers such as the Typewriter Man in the UK and Mytypewriter.com in the US sell

The US-based Kolkata boy on his twin identities, working with Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, his magnum opus on mesh and more

Cindy Juyoung Ok, whose manuscript “Ward Toward” was hailed for its inventiveness and frankness, has received America’s longest-running poetry prize.