Stories
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A Madman’s TaleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Enric Valor« I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »
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There was once a woman who
Inger ChristensenA surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».
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Let’s enjoy the moonThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Alba de CéspedesEight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).
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The body in the crushed rosesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Sergei LebedevExcerpt from Sergei Lebedev’s new novel The Lady of the Mine (2025), set near a Ukrainian coal mine that buries atrocities from the past.
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Animal gameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Agnes LidbeckA story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »
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« The hope of future Pan-African socialism »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Jackie ThomaeA group of « skinny Black lads » enroll at Leipzig’s Karl Marx University in East Germany. An excerpt from Jackie Thomae’s novel Brothers.
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HitchhikerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Defne SumanA story about danger. « She wondered when he was going to ask her where she was going. »
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The original DybbukThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Menachem KaiserA story about afterlife. « A saint! What do you mean he’s a saint! the scholar says. He’s a librarian! Are librarians saints? »
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Trouble at work and home while my son is abroadThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Francesco PacificoA story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »
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StreuselkuchenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Marc LunghussA story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »
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Perhentian SunriseThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Preeta SamarasanA story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »
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WHOOOOThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Sergei LebedevA story about a lonely railway guard on a desolate steppe. « In the cursed August of 1991 the radio informed Kasatonov that there was a state of emergency in the capital. Then it fell silent, as if the receiver had broken. »
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A Silence SharedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Lalla Romano« If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. »