“Nazan the Cleaning Lady”
Selahattin Demirtaş, trans. Amy Marie Spangler and Kate Ferguson
"That Renault station wagon you see over there, it’s from our neighborhood—and so are all the guys inside it. They’re Halime Teyze’s boys. The one at the steering wheel is Yusuf, he’s the oldest. Three of the others are his brothers, and next to them is cousin Muhittin, and that little squirt in the back is Muhittin’s son, Süleyman. They do fancy plastering on ceilings, that’s what all the stuff in the back is for. They make a fine team and work like demons—but the work’s never steady."
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Acts of Infidelity
Lena Andersson, translated by Saskia Vogel
"On the way from Stockholm to Arvidsjaur, her plane touched down in Lycksele to drop off some of the passengers and pick up others. The flights cost five thousand kronor, as much as a ticket to New York. On top of that, she’d bought a pair of warm winter boots, a jacket and a blouse for another few thousand. Their first lovers’ weekend cost her dearly, but what did money matter when you were buying bliss?"
The Ongoing Obsession with Shakespeare’s True Identity
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"Rosarno now exists at the margin of a margin..."
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Remembering Hiroshima, the Story That Changed Everything
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