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FICTION / Fiction 2024
A Soviet Jew Walks Into a Bar in Harlem
By
Anna Badkhen
,
Illustration by
João Fazenda
ESSAYS
The University and the Pursuit of Happiness
By
Siva Vaidhyanathan
FICTION / Winter 2016
Holding
By
Jamie Quatro
,
Illustration by
Anna Schuleit Haber
FICTION / Fall 2018
The Ash Swimming Pool
By
Daisy Johnson
,
Illustration by
Nicole Rifkin
FINE DISTINCTIONS / Spring 2020
Shades of Gloom
By
Gregory McNamee
,
Illustration by
Lauren Simkin Berke
REPORTING / Spring/Summer 2023
The Enigmatic Method
By
Meg Bernhard
,
Illustration by
Jules Julien
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