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Cynthia Zarin

Cynthia Zarin , a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1983, teaches at Yale. She is the author of the novel “ Inverno ” and the poetry collection “ Next Day: New and Selected Poems ,” among others.

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4 picks · 1990–2006

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Seeing Things
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The art of Olafur Eliasson.

The Storyteller
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Cynthia Zarin’s 2004 Profile of the author of “A Wrinkle in Time.”

An Enlarged Heart
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Cynthia Zarin remember her daughter’s terrifying illness.

A PART IN THE PLAY
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PROFILE of actress Linda Hunt, 45, who is 4'9" tall & weighs 80 pounds. When people Hunt has worked with in the theatre or in the movies talk about …