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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”
In the Current Issue, Issue 256
Poetry
Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp
By Kathryn Scanlan“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.”
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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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Fiction
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Two Hundred and Fifty
By Stephanie Wambugu“This is America, I thought, it isn’t right to deny an adult—a paying customer—a beer.”
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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.”
