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Walter, Like Water
By A. M. Homes“He is swimming downhill, backward through time.”
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Fiction
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A Missive Sent Straight from the Mayhem: On Michelle Tea’s Valencia
By Maggie Nelson"I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, being in love, and becoming a writer—and how that rush feels when these things are pursued all at once, with great abandon."
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The Art of Fiction No. 267
By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya“Humor doesn’t cut it, or romance, or lyricism—no, no, no. Only terror works.”
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Interviews
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Recurring Screens
By Nora Claire MillerOn retro screen savers, Bianca Rae Messinger’s pleasureis amiracle, and Grandma’s iMac.
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The War Is Over
By Nasser Rabah“The war is over. / The builders come: / they build doors with archways; the ceilings are high”
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Poetry
Three Stories
By Domenico Starnone“My colleague Alassio is the only person left at the school where I teach who believes that the working class is the engine of history.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 251
Fiction
Three World Tours!
By Lady Shalamar Montague“The illustrations collected here depict some of the unverifiable experiences that Montague later catalogued in a handwritten autobiography.”
