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The Art of Fiction No. 236
By Ali Smith
Cassandras at Weddings, and Other Questions
By Lorin SteinI’m the only child of a single mom, who’s obviously been my best friend from the start. But here’s the thing: after twenty-six years, she recently remarried.
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Here Be Dragons
By Alfred Chester“For eighteen years, Jack Wilson,” she was saying for the third time, “your father took pictures for my family, and we were never dissatisfied. I’m sure if he were back here now—if be weren’t in the hospital—”
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Repo Man: Glen Campbell in Charles Portis’s Norwood
By Rebecca BengalGlen Campbell was the perfect articulator of Portis’s defiantly at-odds small-town characters and their old-fashioned dreams.
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Big Week
By Zadie SmithThe name on the card was Clark: they were to meet in the ten-minute waiting zone just outside departures. But Clark was late and the morning frigid. McRae got back in his car, drove around, parked in the lot, and walked into baggage claim.
From the Archive, Issue 209
Fiction
Dutch Scenes
By Lydia DavisJust as there is no single style of lace bonnet in Brittany, but rather many variants from village to village, there is no single Dutch national costume, despite what we might think from looking at the illustrations on cookie tins or the outfits of little Dutch dolls.
From the Archive, Issue 206
Art & Photography
A Lyrical Ballad
By Andrew MotionAll this was years ago, but how could I forgetthe first thing I did when you finally left mewas grow distinctly unlike myself—so distinctly unlikethat when help was offered I took it.
