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Cover image: Painting by Eva Bovenzi, When mountains walk, 2020 Area Sacra at Torre di Largo Argentina—or, Calpurnia’s Dream   ...

Cover image: Photo of Limantour beach taken by Tracy Allen, April 2025. Sickness In golden and silver coins,A woman unfastens ...

  There stand the hills, drunk with the silence of your eyes.... You open your eyes to rhythm breathing in ...

  There certainly exist vast studies and scientific research that shed light on the laughter of a child. Even writers ...

    Advice Concerning Politicians   Police your politicians police them with the eyes of a hawk, (no less) with ...

“I think I might be an old-fashioned writer. People often comment that I'm a 19th-century writer. And I think maybe ...

  To Isabell G. who told me this story I had never heard of Ikebana until the day I met ...

      We’re all seated in the school gymnasium screaming for some reason. The teacher says this is called ...

From the novel Adua by Igiaba Scego, English translation by Jamie Richard, New Vessel Press, 2017, excerpted courtesy of New ...