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Narrow Escape
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The police lieutenant appeared to be writing down exactly what Gleb was telling him, but r...”
The Precipice
Nell Freudenberger
“At school we had two English teachers, and they were very different. This was a private, s...”
Mare’s Milk
Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine
“On the first of June, 1901, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, a doctor and writer of short stories...”
A Story for Your Daughters, a Story for Your Sons
Rebecca Makkai
“The war had closed much of the city, cut off many of the smaller towns. Unable to trace hi...”
Let’s Play Dead
Senaa Ahmad
“There was a man, let’s call him Henry VIII. There was his wife, let’s call her Anne B. Let...”
Ideas
Patricio Pron
“On April 16, 1981, at approximately three P.M., little Peter Möhlendorf, whom everyone cal...”
Immortality
Yiyun Li
“His story, as the story of every one of us, started long before we were born. For dynastie...”
The Final Solution
Michael Chabon
“I A boy with a parrot on his shoulder was walking along the railway tracks. His gait was...”
The Devil’s Larder
Jim Crace
“ROOM SERVICE Here, after midnight on the seventh floor, room service is provided by a ref...”
Minyan of One
Rachel Cantor
“To reach Abulabaz, Isaac the Jew climbs a pyramid of slaves: one, two, three, up their bla...”
The Royal Prayer
Ismail Kadare
“As the army prepared to set out on its homeward march with my body, leaving behind only my...”
Indians
Jon Billman
“Like all prolonged natural disasters, the Dakota dust bowl bred superstition. Real estate...”