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Bubble
By Angie Sijun Lou“This year so far, I had said, Hello, Goodbye, Do you have change for twenty dollars, Where is the bathroom, and I love you. I had meant every word.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 257
Fiction
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John Berger, Death’s Secretary
By Scott Schomburg“The first letter I sent to him was about a print that he’d made, which was in the archive—a Chagall-inspired Virgin Mary standing on a donkey.”
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Ray of Light
By Geoffrey G. O’Brien“So that nowhere home is / Still ever on the way.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 257
Poetry
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Benjamin Moser on Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
By Krithika Varagur“Israel’s national argument is based on the idea that Israel keeps Jews safe—that we can exist in Sweden or in Holland or in New Jersey only because we have this plan B.”
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The God and the Giant
By Woo Dayoung“I wondered briefly what fear was. Where on earth did it come from?”
In the Current Issue, Issue 257
Fiction
Fisher of Men
By Sam McKinniss“I had entered the bridge as my destination in the app on my iPhone but the phone led me here, to a parking lot and a sign, large, that reads, WELCOME TO ERVING on one side and, on the other, GREAT PLACE TO LIVE.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 257
Letters & Essays
Their Utopia
By Brian Ma"My work made sense when I was drawing schematics and performing calculations, but understanding people and talking to them was admittedly not a skill I possessed.”
