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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
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By The Paris Review“After hearing the horrifying news about the attack on Salman Rushdie earlier today, I turned to the first book of his I’d read.”
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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 Clarice Lispector“That summer night in August was made of the finest fabric of waiting, forever unbreakable.”
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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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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”
