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Hacia Teotitlán
Dagoberto GilbThe last time Ramiro Areyzaga was in Mexico was so long ago it was more like a fairy tale. That was Coyoacán, which is Mexico City but which...
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A Paranormal Romance
Douglas GloverI was supposed to meet Zoe for lunch at a chic Parisian restaurant she had discovered on the Internet, a crucial rendezvous during which I intended...
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Chet Baker's Son
Brandon HobsonI left Chicago and returned to Dallas when my mother tried to overdose. She’d tried it before, usually with pills, but this time they hospitalized...
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On "Brass" by Joy Williams
Christine SchuttAurora, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston, all sites of rampage killings that left four or more dead. Inspired by just such mayhem, “Brass,”...
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On "Miss Grief" by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Anne Boyd RiouxWhen Constance Fenimore Woolson wrote “Miss Grief,” shortly after her arrival in Europe in late 1879, she was, unlike her eponymous...
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Hum
Ann HoodTodd invited the Korns—all of them—for a visit at the beach. Not just dinner, but to stay overnight. Laura was finishing the border of a 2000...
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Klodt's Horses
Mikhail IosselOne day, many years ago, in another lifetime, a friend told me that the sculptor Peter Klodt, author of the famed four-part Horse-Tamer composition...
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What Happens Next
Roy KeseyWas that meant to be a proper question? If not—if you were only making conversation—then very well, let us converse. But if so, then I’m...
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On "An Unwritten Novel" by Virginia Woolf
Kristopher JansmaI teach two hours from where I live, so I spend a lot of time writing on the bus. It’s quiet and the route is scenic––once we get through North Jersey
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Father Figure or, How to Hang the Artwork of the Deceased in Six Trouble-Free Steps
Caleb LeisureNews of my father’s death arrived via First-Class Mail, between The New England Journal of Medicine and the spring Agent Provocateur catalogue