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Lily Tuck cunningly layers history and character to restore to life Czeslawa Kwoka, who died in Auschwitz. It's hard to stop ...

Anita Felicelli’s stories are masterfully unsettling. Combine your most eerie déjà vu moment with your most vividly prophetic dream and you have the tone of the 14 futuristic tales in “How We Know Our ...