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New Shoes
Hisham Matar
“My life in London, the life I had cobbled together with the barest of routines, grew thin...”
Firstborn Immigrant Daughter
Taiye Selasi
“Your mother doesn’t want her daughter to be happy. Your mother wants her daughter to be im...”
Aytaç
David Wingrave
“I don’t know how my father found out about the trip. We hadn’t spoken in almost a year whe...”
Beautiful Partygoer
Lynn Steger Strong
“We’d been in Maine six months, but for the first three our kids had continued to Zoom with...”
Found Objects
Nell Freudenberger
The Things We Don’t Do
Andrés Neuman
“I like that we don’t do the things we don’t do. I like our plans on waking, when morning s...”
From ‘Submission’
Michel Houellebecq
“Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature. (I know better than anyone; I’m a...”
Paris by Night
Sheila Kohler
“She surveys the room where she has slept all the eighteen years of her life: the old brass...”
Minyan of One
Rachel Cantor
“To reach Abulabaz, Isaac the Jew climbs a pyramid of slaves: one, two, three, up their bla...”
When She Is Old and I Am Famous
Julie Orringer
“There are grape leaves, like a crown, on her head. Grapes hang in her hair, and in her han...”
Samba De Los Agentes
Andrei Codrescu
“My name is José, I am Catholic and I was not a plainclothes policeman very long. In Argent...”