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Travel Tips
Manuel MartinezYou should travel as lightly as is possible, of course, and all manner of products can help you do so: quick-drying underwear and powdered soaps...
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Annunciation
Mary MorrisMaddy stands before a wall-size map of Italy. She’s staring at Tuscany while Joe shows her their intended route. They’ll be traveling there in June.
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On "The Elephant Vanishes" by Haruki Murakami
Lily TuckItalo Calvino once wrote that he wanted to edit a collection of stories that consisted of one sentence and, as an extraordinary example, he cites...
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For Guayama
Luis NegrónSammy: First of all excuse my handwriting since I didn’t bring my glasses. It’s just that, nene, I’m going nuts with Guayama being sick...
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Child? Dog? Stay? Run?
Leigh NewmanThe house, with its gabled roof and bay windows, Paul had to admit, was a tad ambitious. Thirteen years of testing and retesting their daughter...
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Betrayal
Sigrid NunezWhenever I travel I try to avoid getting into conversations with strangers I happen to be sitting with. There is nothing worse than being trapped...
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On "A Love Match" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Edith Pearlman“A Love Match” by Sylvia Townsend Warner is the story of brother-sister incest. No, I haven’t spoiled it—the fact of the incest and the...
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The Imperfect
Tracy O'NeillI meant to buy a gift on discount, but the coupon expired before I wasn’t hungover anymore. My girl Jolene read somewhere that a man’s relationship...
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She’s Dying, He Said
Marge PiercyI was what was then called a tomboy until halfway through my seventh year. I had always played with neighboring boys. I had little interest in...
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On "Sex Education" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Don ChaonI have long been interested in writers who have fallen into neglect. Dorothy Canfield Fisher is, unfortunately, among those whose work is seldom...