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A few months ago, as a result of the strange, hazy possession that occurs while sitting in front of the laptop screen, I ...

When the Moon fell, he fell from heaven from heaven on the porch. When the Moon fell, he fell from heaven, and no one saw him ...

Just now, I found this list of animals I saw from the car and around venues while on tour: Horses, colts, foals, ponies, ...

I don’t care how nice you are, becoming a mother grants a certain capacity to take action, like a hot holiday chestnut cracks ...

You see I have this broken nose I got when el tico Lizano hit me with a brick because I said it was obviously a foul ...

Nebraska is a stubby gay bildungsroman that tracks an amputee named Craig Mullen, our narrator, from his bedridden preteens ...

But she sees “up close, oh, their soft faces and special haircuts, their pimples, their nascent moustaches.” The specter of suburban violence, a persistent concern of Garner’s work, hangs over “our” ...

October 26, 2012 – “TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”Daniel Horowitz takes on Poe’s classic 1843 tale of ...

In Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Ethnographer,” a white American graduate student named Fred embeds himself into a Native American tribe. Eventually, he penetrates its “secret doctrine.” His ...

I first encountered Alexandra Kleeman’s work in the pages of this magazine. Her story “Fairy Tale”—published in 2010, when Kleeman was still a student in the M.F.A. program at Columbia University—is a ...