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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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At the Tate
… picture of Gordon, the infamous formerly enslaved Union  soldier with the scourged back trashed with vicious scars    in … galvanizing power of the mutilated Black body. Does horror  compel us more than beauty? A picture of Gordon’s back … of red that seeped from the edge of the brush.”   Her work also hangs in the Tate with a piece titled Esirn Coaler   on …
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An Impression of John Galsworthy
… An Impression of John Galsworthy The German public which has given to “The Forsyte … of a German painter, had taken us into her home. She has died since then but her fragile distinction still moves me … describe him, if it were more spiritual. One very soon becomes sure in intercourse with this man, of what one really …
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Total Loss
… more. Umma hurts one hundred times more.” This parting comment seemed a pinch delusional. Maternal transitive … jargon, and the summary Laurie learned to say for expediency’s sake: “My house exploded in a catastrophic fire. … I set up a donation page for my sister on a crowdfunding website, which quickly amassed a remarkable show of support …
Polish Village Life: A Portrait
… surprised and interested. This whole side of my family had come from Poland, and many of the older relatives could … listed larger towns in the area that served as distribution points for mail to the villages and even these places were … did not know the word dziadek because Bapci’s husband had died before any of us was born. Bapci is a solitary woman, …
Like the Whiteness of the World
… of the dispatch office trembled. “Watch one of them icicles come down—zing, like a tomahawk.” Waller moved over and … last from his urine-yellow mattress; the mother, worn out, died. And then the resurrected son, fully recovered, walked … at me, and when I understood what had happened I understood also that they were being considerate of me as if Finney and …
The Neutral Love Object
… The Neutral Love Object On the way over to the Island they composed the kind of grouping commonly sought by fashion … course the dog, the obligatory panting Golden retriever obediently sprawled at his master’s feet. The difference being, … slavishly for the sandwich crusts and cake crumbs that were also his birthright. Once at a cocktail party a psychiatrist …
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