Suicide Club
Rachel Heng
"The cake was a huge, tiered thing, painted with butter cream and decked with tiny red flowers, floating on a glass pedestal in the middle of the crowded room."
Nadifa Mohamed: My Life at Oxford’s Last All-Women College
What's Changed—and What Hasn't—Since the Turn of the Millenium
Why Was 90s TV Full of Violence Against Women?
"Women are Being Beaten, Terrorized, Abducted and Killed at an Alarming Rate"
25 Alice Munro Stories You Can Read Online Right Now
For Use as a Master Class in Short Story Writing
The Family Tabor
Cherise Wolas
"Tomorrow evening, Harry Tabor will be anointed Man of the Decade. If this were the 1300s, he would be running for his life to escape savage pogroms in France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, or Bohemia."
On Falling in Love with the Language I’ve Spoken My Entire Life
Lucy Tan Rediscovers Chinese Through the Fiction of Eileen Chang
Visiting an Experimental, Do-It-Yourself Library in Brooklyn
Dev Aujla's Sorted Library Wants to Celebrate Nonlinear Thinking
How to Stop the Spread of Anti-Vaxxer Misinformation
"As a scientist, I believe ignorance is best countered by the facts"
Peter Mayle Knew How to Handle the Trolls (Back When They Wrote Letters)
The Late Lover of Provence Recalls a Life of Interviews (and Interruptions)
I Worked in Biology for 17 Years… Then I Became a Writer
From Studying Silkmoth Eggs to Studying Fiction
The Itinerant Evangelical Preachers of the American Frontier
They Served as News-Bearers and Moral Purveyors
Small Country
Gaël Faye (trans. Sarah Ardizzone)
"It was a typical morning. The cockerel was crowing. The dog was scratching behind his ear. The aroma of coffee wafted through the house. The parrot mimicked Papa’s voice. We could hear the sound of a broom scraping the ground in next-door’s yard, and the strains of a radio blaring somewhere in the neighbourhood."
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