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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.”
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Fiction
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Life in Jane Austen’s Goshen
By Caleb Gayle"Austen made me feel like I belonged in the making of literature."
The Daily
Rereading
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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How Jane Austen Pulled It Off: On Emma
By Jennifer Egan“Emma has been called a detective novel, and with good reason: the fun of first reading it consists largely in scrutinizing the suspects and trying to figure out, not whodunnit, but whowilldoit—as in who will marry whom.”
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La Comédie-Française
By Nora Fulton“I like it when I’m looking / At a woman’s wrists / I like it when a woman likes to look at my wrists”
In the Current Issue, Issue 251
Poetry
Crystal Palace
By Amie Barrodale“They were in the smaller, formal mess—far enough off the main grid that you could forget for a second that you were living at the end of eight miles of tunnels.”
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Fiction
Downtown (Altar)
By Agosto Machado“After moving to Greenwich Village in the late fifties, Machado became a fixture of the queer theater, art, and activist movements then emerging in downtown New York.”
