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Gone
"We had heard that these sorts of games were dangerous, that if we were to become part of local legend, if other girls were to keep watch over us, one of us must level out with the top of the set, then catapult over the chain-link to the street on the other side, land in a heap of wasted child-body, lie in rivers of blood. Be gone."
fiction
Desaliento
"We were at the nude beach one cloudy afternoon when he was thinking it all over out loud. I was topless and Diego was completely on display, which, looking back, should have been awkward for us, but it wasn’t."
Patricia Engel
The Last Time I Saw Junior
"I imagined what I'd like to do to him, and everything I imagined I'd do made blood. I mean real blood. I'd made blood happen in the past. Not gun blood, not bullets, not knife wounds. I wasn't a killer. But broken teeth, yes, absolutely."
Dagoberto Gilb
Mugger and Mouse Get Married
"Mugger and Mouse get married on a cool day in June. The war is over, but there are rumors of another."
Michael Agresta
A Baby Is A Baby Is A Baby
"Had someone caught on early and agreed to do away with him before his fingernails and toenails grew..."
Matthew Stuart
The Cynic
"If you listen to those who are wise..."
Charles Johnson
The Art of Dying
"Mona Skye, the duelist and poet of lately tragic fame, lay where her friends had placed her: on brocade cushions in a corner of the smoking room beneath the Amber Tree café."
K.J. Bishop
Barbarians' Fantasies
"The film crew hadn't been down long before my girlfriend Lenka started sleeping with Russell Crowe's driver."
Peter Mountford
In Rut
"Days before, a wildfire to the east turned the sliver of moon hazy blood-orange."
Madeline Kotowicz
Siblings
"I came into this world in parts, jumbled together with my brother"
Yvonne Woon
The Dance
"The gymnasium flickers with strobe lights, the DJ plays one rap song about butts after another, and my twin sister is looking really weird as she dances."
Jennie Berner
archive
Revolutionary Road
Read Stewart O'Nan's 1999 article which renewed public interest in Richard Yates's literary career. The film version of Revolutionary Road is due out later this year.
essays
We Laughed, We Cried
Flann O'Brien's Triumph
Roger Boylan
The Mirror
Imagining justice in Palestine
Elias Khoury
Justify the Enemy
Becoming human in South Africa
Zakes Mda
The Monarch of All
The fantasy world of John Cowper Powys
Roger Boylan
For Love and Money
Ha Jin's A Free Life
Mythili G. Rao
Out of Exile
Notes on Bulgarian Literature
Dimiter Kenarov
A Fiendish Mood
The mid-century novels of "the other Elizabeth Taylor"
Neel Mukherjee
Something For Myself
Haruki Murakami's strange world of hope
Catalina Holguí
Lastingness
Nicholas Delbanco
Nabokov's Legacy
Roger Boylan
Whole Sight
On artistic passion
Charles Johnson
Brazil's Dreamer
Pop star and novelist Chico Buarque
Scott Saul
Found in Translation
César Aira's How I Became a Nun and Roberto Bolaño's Amulet
Aura Estrada
Metamorphosis
Rosamond Purcell's natural history
John Crowley
Homeland
On the new generation of Nigerian novelists
Andrée Greene
Paradise Lost
The novels of Sarah Waters
Jan Clausen







