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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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Falls
… waiting for her delayed arrival as sure as Petey, come dark, would try to stay awake till she returned. Nightfall— she could almost see it— he’d come back to the window, watch through the sprawl of city …
Homage to John Garfield
… link the bridges With foam in afternoon glare; Whatever died in the last war Left Brooklyn harbor, maybe Is still … narrow bars off Broadway, Blacks out regularly at 4 a. m. , Dies at 39 in hotel sheets, Journalists delighted to report … sweater loses, Can’t pay up, leans back And watches rain come down On a southbound express. 659-660 By Nicholas …
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An Appreciation of Alice Munro
… through; I find myself reading from cover to cover again. I complain about this to her and she laughs. But the truth of … the specific settings of the earlier stories, and I could also supply historical sidebars, because I know the country … is Dickensian: during the winter the father of the family died on the same day that, in another corner of the shack, a …
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Tokyo Parrots
… overflowing with potent imagery. But this sensory input can also be overpowering, making it tough to find a single … another framing device, and steep upward angles enrich the composition so that “the point of view is different from … I only think when I edit.” Asked if the birds are somehow a commentary on the massive city they now inhabit, Mizutani …
City Sky Line Painted on A Blind Eye
City Sky Line Painted on A Blind Eye Just before November, young woman bending over, mending you can’t see what. Straight from the nuns, Catholic kid, at a black sewing machine, old fashioned kind. Blind crow pecking path-edge for star crumbs the children …
In A Molluscan Mood
… visitor of the fallen circumnavigator’s achievement. Accompanying me was Evaristo Zambo, from nearby Cebu, who … cowries, while feudal lords rated only seven, high officials five, clerks three, common people one. And how about the … by previously unknown species brought from the Dutch East Indies by returning officials and colonialists. Brisk trading …
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