Ilya Kaminsky: ‘Fables Allow You to Break Bread With the Dead’

Published with permission from BAM and the National Book Foundation What is it about courage that astounds our ability to imagine it? Perhaps it’s because, in dire times, we’re told to forget we can—not be courageous, but imagine what that looks like, what it feels like. To imagine others, demonstrating it. One reason in our […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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The Parable of the Bread, by Juan Villoro

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‘Finding Freedom’ dissects Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s break with the royal family

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Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Death in Her Hands’ kicks off like a murder mystery. But the missing dead body is beside the point.

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A Robert Kirkman Surprise: A New Walking Dead Story

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