She was creeping around at night looking for food. Well, it wasn’t really night, only just past sundown, and the call from the mosque still hung in the blackening air,…
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Noah Warren is the author of The Complete Stories (Copper Canyon, 2021), and The Destroyer of the Glass (2016), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He is a doctoral student in English at…
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Typically, I don’t understand the irritatingly persistent appeal of French food. I have little interest in the incessant barrage of cookbooks, the well-lit photos, the homages and journeys all dedicated…
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“Don’t call it a comeback,” raps LL Cool J. This summer the “Dining with a Cursed Bloodline,” column ended like a Disney Classic Movie. Marriage. Happily Ever After. Roll credits.…
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I don’t remember the first time I watched the movie Julia and Julia. This is not surprising considering the number of times I’ve watched it — often while sipping gimlets or a…
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Original artwork by Flynn Nicholls.
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Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of four books. His latest collection of poetry, Felon, was published in October 2019 by W.W. Norton. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law…
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Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of The Surrender Tree, Enchanted Air, Forest World, Drum Dream Girl, and a recent verse memoir Soaring Earth. She is the recipient of many…
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You have to learn how to eat. I’m about seven or eight years old and my parents have taken me out to eat at a restaurant in the foothills of…
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Stevie Edwards is the author of two poetry collections, Good Grief (Write Bloody) and Humanly (Small Doggies), as well as a recent chapbook Sadness Workshop (Button Poetry). She holds a…
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Sammi Skolmoski is a writer and fiber artist born, living, and probably dying in Chicago. She is the managing editor at Featherproof Books and a headline contributor at The Onion,…
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Lana del Rey’s new single “Looking for America,” brings me to tears on first listen. Like her, the America I once naively believed in was only a myth. Patriotism shattered…
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Kendra DeColo is the author of My Dinner with Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016) and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia…
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Original artwork by Flynn Nicholls.
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