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This week, the editors celebrate Wayne Koestenbaum’s essay on the art of the fugue, “Notes on Not Now,” which appeared in the magazine’s pages in December 1995. Koestenbaum’s conversation with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will be released tomorrow as part of the online video series “Artists On Writers | Writers On Artists,” a copresentation of Artforum and Bookforum. “I am confused about the spirit of the age,” Wayne Koestenbaum confesses in his incandescent and hilarious he would likely prefer the word hysterical essay “Notes on Not Now.” Playing inside the form of the fugue both the musical composition and that muggy state of mind the piece muses on what, or who, signals the contemporary. In a culture that embroiders its currency with revivals and republications, comebacks and recirculations, is there no time not like the present? As ever, Koestenbaum’s measure of a moment is prompted by matters of language. Here, a scholar’s mention of “iconoph

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