This holiday season, we’re snuggling up with good books and dreams for the new decade. In case you’re as much a fan of nostalgia as we are, we’ve gathered up our favorite books of the year, as well as some…
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This holiday season, we’re snuggling up with good books and dreams for the new decade. In case you’re as much a fan of nostalgia as we are, we’ve gathered up our favorite books of the year, as well as some…
What do you want people to say at your funeral? From the comfort of the casket, would you prefer a weeping violin or a cheerful trumpet? And what about the reception—still or champagne? Waterworks or fireworks?
Penny liked climbing into my bed. I was underweight and short for even a younger kid’s age, and Penny often let me use her as a pillow while I read.
Perumal Murugan grew up in a family of farmers in Tamil Nadu. He is one of India’s most well-known literary writers, having produced ten novels and five collections each of short […]
“how we in love performed / a spine”
Tom, as I’ve gotten around to naming him with all this spare time, handles these real or imaginary slights with a unique, dignified nonchalance while on my lap.
The winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, Cameron Awkward-Rich’s new collection “Dispatch” grapples with ‘the pains of navigating dailiness in a body’ subjected to systematic American violence.
The fighting drowned the Earth. The soil went from brown to red, everywhere you stepped made a river of blood flow.
“the power to see ourselves / in sculpted figures, caged / in stars.”
Sweat collects on our skin, rolls down the folds of our limbs in rivers. I look out the small round window at the steel blue lake shimmering only thirty feet in front of us.
Dressing, not stuffing. That’s a distinction she clings to even after all these years up north. Her worn hands crumble cornbread and white bread together over a mixing bowl, skin […]
Yi continued training, but he lost whatever hope he used to have; gone was the certainty in his steps and the hunger in his swings. He was distracted in the ring.
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