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Z, The Turning, by Steve Tomasula

We imagine the lives of the silent. It’s impossible not to. I was at the zoo, at that time…

Translated by Rachel Galvin You say that insisting on this is a mistake. You always say it. We understand…

He liked bird dogs, with their handsome pedigrees and soft mouths. Fine heads, high strung, spots of liver, their…

We wharfies spend ourselves on sandwiches slick with mayo and chips as tough as baleen, a scrap of which…

Sixteen years ago, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its…

Salt from his margarita sat on his lips. A grain had wound up on his face, sitting in one…

The Religious Mood “Where does religious feeling come from? From the fact there is a world.” —Simone Weil —Beginning…

Left alone, an empty jug will replenish, so it has been written; mirrors will cast flashes from one’s past;…

iDeath My father was driven to Drink and Despair in a donkey cart. Other men had died there, and the…

Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez I have seen hearts settled by ants, and carnal masks,…