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“Miss Muriel”

ALMOST EVERY DAY, Ruth Davis and I walk home from school together. We walk very slowly because we like to talk to each other and we don’t get much chance… READ MORE

The Dead Season

Excerpted from Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz. Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine and with a foreword by Rivka Galchen. “Bruno Schulz is arguably the most influential author… READ MORE

“Crossing”

By Sterling Brown This is not Jordan RiverThere lies not CanaanThere is stillOne more wide river to cross. This is the MississippiAnd the stars tell us onlyThat this is not… READ MORE

“The Star”

by Reginald Harris Her closet is a universe made for trying on the brightly colored dresses, a standing field of flowers wider than the cramped stamp of dirt behind the… READ MORE

“HAPPY?”

by Vievee Francis List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, / home of the happy. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie” HAPPY? I would not say so…. READ MORE

from “The Akhmatova Journals”

Lydia Chukovskaya was an author and passionate defender of Russian letters and human rights. Her books include the frequently studied Sofia Petrovna and To the Memory of Childhood. In 1987, in the twilight… READ MORE

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