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Ralph Lauren
By Katana Smith“cotton sweaters with the American flag, / Oxford shirts, and riding boots.”
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Poetry
from “Adamant!”
By Jean Day“Frankenstein, an early adopter, fidgets / by firelight”
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Poetry
Redux: How Could I Forget Odysseus?
By The Paris Review“I loved that Odysseus could transition so easily from being somebody to being nobody, and back again."
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Lil Spooky
By Chad Fore“He hadn’t been sure if he was supposed to fight back or just take the beating, if he could dodge the blows or cover his face or what, but it wound up not mattering.”
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Charles Brockden Brown Declares Independence
By Ed SimonFrequently claimed to be the first novel published in the United States, the book begins with a religious iconoclast who spontaneously combusts.
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Two Lives
By Daisy Hildyard“Place a man and a woman in a train carriage together and the mind doggedly closes in—but between him and Katharine there had been something else.”
