The Brooklyn Rail

Fiction

• Sandy Cinderella
  A Scene from Daily Life in al-Najaf, Iraq

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  by Faleeha Hassan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins

• A False Accounting

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  By Tan Lin

• Masters of Despair

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  By Anna Mockler

• The Joyous Science, Part 1
  The True Story of the Famous Bruce, Composed in Verse from the Accounts of Several Eyewitnesses

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  by Maxim Amelin, translated from the Russian by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher

• from Kid Coole

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  By M. G. Stephens

• Les Halles, Belly Of Paris
  from Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clebert

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  with photographs by Patrice Molinard, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith, out now from NYRB Classics

• Guy

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  By Tom Motley