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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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The Woman
… air did not seem foul and thick like a carpet in my mouth. Also my ears popped. Also I found brightness in the light before my eyes. Life had become technicolor. I pounded my fist on the bench and the man … is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Ice, maybe. Sometimes soldiers. With guns, you bet, and a passing interest in a …
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The Vermilion Sea
… for cheap, in a boatyard. On this mission, they would be accompanied by Jakob, a German man Uffa had befriended a … he said. “We have a saying where I am from: Vorsicht ist die Mutter der Porzellankiste . It mean: ‘Caution is the … punctuation and was especially infatuated with exclamation points. “When we are back home, we will hang out,” Jakob …
A Continent in Confusion
… which the proudest parts of our vaunted civilization have come, in a state of confusion. Men distrust each other; … are born only to grow up into an unlovely maturity, or to die before they, know the years of seasoned thought. And … art and hope are reported on by an individual who is also a person. And then Sudermann brings us back into …
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Tenth Year
… just last month, my pupil asked me for a letter of recommendation. It was for a fellowship, one that I myself had … head of the Conservatory, I have seen many esteemed individuals pass through its doors, many of whom have even gone on … No matter how elite a space, the truth is that the audience for our kind of music shrinks by the day. And though …
Mumford Tilts at Windmills
… By Lewis Mumford. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $4.50. Ithink that many readers of Cervantes, like … that throws light on this problem in literary criticism and also on the present state of the industrial arts which might … the manual exercises through which rationality was embodied in an ever widening field of tools and machines, until …
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The Successors
… in Port Harcourt in 1995: That was when one of the corporals saw a boy who could have been a university student; he … The corporal thought he looked suspicious… . “Hey-shhh, come here.” The boy acted like he didn’t see or hear the … down at once. Paul, the seventeen-year-old boy in question, dies as a result of the blow, but his parents and siblings …
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