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The Hedgehog
By Zheng Zhi“I found out only later that when my ma called Ensign Wang a lunatic, she’d meant it literally—he really was a mental patient.”
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Fiction
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There Is Another World, But It Is This One
By Luke Allan“The last time I saw my mum was at a Mexican restaurant in a shopping mall.”
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First Person
Walter, Like Water
By A. M. Homes“He is swimming downhill, backward through time.”
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John Ashbery’s Analyst
By Hannah Zeavin“It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand.”
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Lectures
My Aerodynamics
By Edward Salem“I fell like this for years, / in the fishy air. I stopped panicking. / I could think as I fell.”
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Poetry
Monsieur Matin
By Marie NDiaye“When my daughters turned twelve I initiated them into the mysterious powers with which women of my family line have since time immemorial been endowed.”
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Fiction
from Penitential Cries
By Susan Howe“Stand up facing the wall, chair behind you. Not feet splayed outward, you cannot go that low”
