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Take a look at the beautiful cover—and partial contributor list—for Astra Magazine’s first issue.

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Exclusive cover reveal: Laura Warrell’s Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm.

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Instructions for Dating a Fellow Writer

Instructions for Dating a Fellow Writer

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Does Success Justify Abandonment? Min Jin Lee on Cinema Paradiso and the Artist's Life

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On Wartime Life in Occupied Donbas, c. 2015

On Wartime Life in Occupied Donbas, c. 2015

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