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By Andrew MartinI snapped my leg in two and lost the summer—six months on crutches and I’d be lucky if I didn’t limp for the rest of my life. I went to the ground for a slide tackle in a pickup soccer game and felt what turned out to be my tibia shoot through my skin.This was i…
From the Archive, Issue 206
Fiction
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An Overdue Pilgrimage to Stonington
By Henri Cole“It has taken me some days to sit at his desk.”
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Zuihitsu
By Arthur Sze“clink: we sipped champagne out of handblown Venetian glass flutes, spread black caviar on blinis—glimmering ice, glimmering water”
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By Pankaj Mishra“We are constantly afraid for many of our authors and friends as well as for ourselves. As a writer, you enter into this curious dilemma—you want your book to be read yet you don’t want it attracting attention, or, at any rate, the wrong kind o…
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By Darryl Pinckney“Is your friend as pretty as you are? he asks. She’s a white girl, she answers. He tells her all white women look the same.”
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Nairobi
By Joyce Carol OatesEarly Saturday afternoon the man who had introduced himself as Oliver took Ginny to several shops on Madison Avenue above 70th Street
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By Chard deNiord“Had he not grieved so deeply, he never would have grown into the comedian he did”
