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… Big Bird Died for Your Sins   Barry was six-foot-six, fifteen like … dreaming drunk.  A crowd kept vigil on the beach. His compañero the catcher dove and dove again between the fins … from a cooler, I said: When my father told me Clemente died, there were tears in his eyes.   No one said anything, …

At Great Point Let the waters of heaven be gathered into one place . . . Genesis 1 Is this the very face of an angry God, or simply his instrument? On calm mornings halos of light hovering over the water . . . a few feathers on the sand as if an angel has …

… Week’s Highlights: “I Award You No Points” Read In Tablet, VQR contributor Adam Kirsch … “War Dances,” the titular story from Sherman Alexie’s forthcoming book. Funny, humane, sad, structurally interesting, … in her country during World War II, and her work brings audience members and a judge to tears. The words at the end of …

… My Mother Died on Shavuot My mother died on Shavuot, at the end of the Counting of the Omer. Her … and shabby wooden signs with names in Hebrew and Latin: the Common Rose, Mediterranean Sage, the Common Shriek, the … My Mother Died on Shavuot …

… “I Have Decided Not to Die” Armenian Golgotha, by Grigoris Balakian. Knopf, March … (a celibate priest) and scholar, was one of 250 intellectuals, writers, teachers, politicians, and prominent Armenians … deliberate and bureaucratically directed, the prototypical components of what Churchill would later call “a crime …