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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations
BOOK REVIEW: LET NO-ONE SLEEP
Sometimes, a larger-than-life bird woman is all a book needs.
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The Dark Room
Lucy knows all these things about him, and more. She keeps them filed away in a special part of her brain, the part of her brain that deals with difficult ...
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Snare
He doubts if moving in with her might have felt too natural a course to take. Natural enough for him to forget when. And he doubts he’s the only guy ...
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The Monk Seal
Without money or connections, what value did his friendship have? But the analysis changed if he’d transgress on Conor’s behalf. His transgressions would make him complicit.
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Cold Comfort
Narratives. It was all about narratives.
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Slumming It
There are moments, situations, that define relationships, when there is a rightness between two people – the way that a society host and hostess, cold-shouldering each other for months, would ...
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Between the Ground and Sky
Toward the end, Ben had taken to carrying a photo of himself in his wallet. On the surface, he knew it seemed an act of extreme and unfounded vanity but, ...
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Dead and Gone
Back inside the tavern, the dining room had grown dark and empty except for a handful of guests at the far end of the bar where a muted green light ...
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Urgent
“There aren’t any seats left and standing people have already taken up a lot of the wall space. I stand in front of a table pushed against the corner.”
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Notes of Improvement on Parisian Trains
“Empty, she wrote, even though it wasn’t an improvement, because sometimes she just wrote what she saw.”
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BOOK REVIEW: NEWS AT NOON
A capering comedy, set against the backdrop of a pandemic, which throws in some legitimate and thought-provoking concern around the influence of new media.
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Mother Goes to Italy
She ran from this loneliness all the way to Italy, hoping it wouldn’t find her there.
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BOOK REVIEW: HAWA HAWA AND OTHER STORIES
Twisting tales of power, violence, love and mystery
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Real Time
Sometimes what I thought was the end was only a pause.
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Hey, Bob, Aren’t Ya Talkin’?
He turns into the hallway, walks its length, then grabs the gold knob on the storage room door. Locked. He walks back to the men’s restroom. Also locked. He knocks.
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Wartime Generations
The day was beautiful. Perhaps it was a good day to die for the right reasons.
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Vice & Hurricanes
I knocked at every registered address on the island that ever voted Democrat. And with it, experienced the culture of Galveston like accidentally swallowing the Atlantic ocean instead of a ...
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BOOK REVIEW: THE FORGERY
Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a painting or TV show. Rather, ...
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Teach
Photo by Eric and Mary Ellen.
So the teaching associate, we called him “Teach,” but we meant no disrespect by that, it’s just that the name sort of fit because he’s ...
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Once a Smoker, Always a Smoker
“I don’t know why you wanted to meet here of all places.”
She said it in a voice of perfect exasperation that was all at once disheartening and tenderly familiar ...