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  • THE LEDE

    Lucian Truscott IV Celebrated as a novelist and screenwriter, and most recently as a Salon.com...
    February 15, 2025
    Marc Cooper What a difference a 14-hour plane ride makes! There I was basking in the 90-degree...
    February 15, 2025
    Roger Benham He awoke to the sea of his youth renamed, a caprice of the new king. The name...
    February 8, 2025
    Susan Zakin It’s beautiful in southern California right now. Spring, perhaps false spring, rife...
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  • DEPT. OF MISSPENT YOUTH

    Dave Newman I woke from a delicate sleep to a hooker knocking on my truck window. It was late...
  • HOW WE LIVE NOW

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  • THE FICTION ISSUE

    Lawrence Osborne, MG Vassanji, Elizabeth Evans, Baba Badji

    Lawrence Osborne For several years Hilal ran a boat hire out of Qantab beach, taking rich...
    M.G. Vassanji It was January 1972. Pakistan had recently, only the previous month, lost a...
    Elizabeth Evans The following extracts come from the novel DANIEL ELLSBERG’S PSYCHIATRIST by...
    Baba Badji Chapter Eleven : Aunty Salymata After years, I finally found the courage to go...
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    TRUTH SPEAKS LOUDER THAN FACTS

    In the novel, Libertyville, two young men, a British reporter and a West African coup leader form...
    Tom Piazza I had the idea for The Auburn Conference at the beginning of November 2018, driving...
  • CLASSICS

    Après John, le deluge
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