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… 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 …
Poetry
… 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 …
Criticism
… “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 …
Fiction
… they’d sent him home. The nurse had warned him no more false calls and patted his back to reassure him that death … Your mother’s worried. He waves at me from the car to come on. Listen, I’ve got to go. I can hear her cracking … see my father through the window banging on the counter. He points toward the bathroom door, which has a yellow pole …
Poetry
… would be to us who lived by the conduit, cast in the die of the predictable stranger. 80-81 By Chad Davidson …
Criticism
… promotion for his last book, James sparked debate with his comments about the domination of white women as gatekeepers … to mean everything for publishing and marketing professionals and very little for actual readers, who tend to read … noted on a recent episode of the literary and queer studies podcast Food 4 Thot , “It’s sad when fantasy writers …