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Two Hands
By Caoilinn Hughes“As the tires lose traction, she can think only of a sonnet’s closing couplet: the sonnet she’d been struggling to translate on the day they crashed.”
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The Tickling of the Bulls: A Rodeo at Madison Square Garden
By Jasper Nathaniel“The drama was in the dirt.”
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The Art of Criticism No. 5
By Fredric Jameson“Ideological critique has to end up being a critique of the self. You can’t recognize an ideology unless, in some sense, you see it in yourself.”
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By Alexia UnderwoodThe Palestinian poet’s new collection, No One Will Know You Tomorrow, depicts life under Israeli occupation.
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Scraps
By Abdulah Sidran“The past wasn’t talked about, but you could feel its tentacles wherever you looked.”
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Letters & Essays
Dinosaurs
By Josh Smith“Palm trees, felines, and extinct reptiles made of seashells, pine cones, toothpicks, wire, and wood.”
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Art & Photography
Moon
By Ann Craven“Craven traveled between several fourteen-by-fourteen-inch canvases, each depicting the moon at a different moment in its ascent above the Empire State Building.”