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A Long Island Passage

by Emily DeVoti

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I still wake up sometimes, in the middle of the night, sure that I’m here. Grandma’s kitchen. That haven of modernity and 1980s suburban decadence. It’s a fever dream. I feel the give of the cold linoleum under my hot feet.

A Man Leaves Home

by Billy Sothern

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We drove north into Mississippi as the late-summer Sabbath sun rose over New Orleans.

Letter from Syria: Goodbye to Iraq...

by Robert S. Eshelman

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At first, Jeremana seems like any other neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus. A steady stream of road-worn automobiles hobbles over the pot-holed streets that are lined with boxy, chock-a-block apartment buildings.

Pankaj Mishra with Hirsh Sawhney

by Hirsh Sawhney

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India’s pursuit of superpowerdom has been cheered on by the US media as well as the country’s own mainstream press, but writer Pankaj Mishra’s powerful portraits of the subcontinent pierce through this chauvinistic fog.

Janna Levin with Sylvie Myerson

by Sylvie Myerson

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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines is Janna Levin’s first novel, and with it she has broken new ground. The work has been hailed as a novel of ideas recounting the lives and deaths of Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing, whose discoveries radically changed the way philosophers, mathematicians and scientists understand mathematics.