I'll Never Get Over the Death of My Mother contemporary
A Friday evening in Queens, 1994: an ambulance on a snow-covered street, and a grief that has no institutional time.
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Prose
Short fiction, narrative non-fiction, and literary prose that takes seriously both the aesthetic and the political life.
Under the Portals: Antigua Guatemala, 1974 contemporary
Antigua, 1974: a young Chicagoan reading Asturias meets Porfirio, who lives under the portals of the Parque Central. The friendship ends in gifts, a beating, and a question that has lasted fifty years.
ReadZeenat and the Dawn of the Sindhi Novel earlier voice
When Mirza Khalich Baig published Zeenat in 1890, it marked a decisive turning point in the literary landscape of Sindh.
ReadLife As You Knew It contemporary
Morning coffee in a Marimekko cup, a Japanese maple, the garbage truck: ordinary life, held against an unnamed dread.
ReadPicasso, Nietzsche, and Me contemporary
A cheap Picasso print, a copy of Ecce Homo, and a laugh that no longer feels like his own.
ReadThe Chain Gang earlier voice
A short story of the Georgian hills, forced labour, and the song of the chain gang.
ReadThe Story of an Hour earlier voice
1894. A short story of grief, sudden freedom, and the joy that kills.
ReadA Dream of Wild Bees earlier voice
A mother darning by an open window dreams of wild bees become spirits, and of the gift one of them lays upon her unborn child.
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