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Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner is a poet, critic and author of the novels Leaving the Atocha Station (2011) and 10:04 (2014). In 2018, he published two artist collaborations, The Polish Rider (with Anna Ostoya, Mack) and The Snows of Venice (with Alexander Kluge, Spector).

Features , Thematic Essays
Ben Lerner on Margaux Williamson’s Hard-Earned Magic

The Canadian painter’s new work offers a ‘vivid experience of perception without vivid percepts’

BY Ben Lerner |
Fan Letter
Ben Lerner on Allan Sekula’s ‘Fish Story’

‘Sekula’s sentences have their own nautical rhythm that brings incommensurate scales of experience into sudden relation’

BY Ben Lerner |
Interviews
On Hating On ...

Hal Foster and Ben Lerner discuss criticism, poetry, painting and what it means to despise the thing you love most

BY Hal Foster AND Ben Lerner |
Profiles
A Trace of a Trace

The framing of art and life in Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers

BY Ben Lerner |
Profiles
The Actual World

Are objects more real than words? Or, how poet and novelist Ben Lerner stopped being jealous and learned to love the virtual

BY Ben Lerner |