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Ralph Lauren
By Katana Smith“cotton sweaters with the American flag, / Oxford shirts, and riding boots.”
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Poetry
from “Adamant!”
By Jean Day“Frankenstein, an early adopter, fidgets / by firelight”
In the Current Issue, Issue 256
Poetry
Shen Yun Plays Itself
By Paul Thompson“What a relief, a breath of fresh air, to be reminded what the barest, sloppiest propaganda can look like.”
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Lil Spooky
By Chad Fore“He hadn’t been sure if he was supposed to fight back or just take the beating, if he could dodge the blows or cover his face or what, but it wound up not mattering.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 256
Fiction
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Bill Buford Revisits Among the Thugs
By Leo Robson“I kept getting hit by beer cans.”
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One Book
Two Lives
By Daisy Hildyard“Place a man and a woman in a train carriage together and the mind doggedly closes in—but between him and Katharine there had been something else.”
