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From the Archives: Lunch with a Dead Beat, by David Ohle

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor David Ohle! Celebrate by reading this Ohle fiction we published in 2023! They found…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which…

Happy birthday, Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading two Martone fictions we published in 2019! They were subsequently published in The…

“A dead hare appears, just like in a fairy tale…” —Joseph Beuys You might know me as Joseph Beuys’s…

Translated by S. C. Delaney and Agnès Potier Slack waves cross the darkness. Like a very thin veil stretched…

Ethereal Meat Tossing crushed garlic into hand-churned butter melting in cast-iron pans, I caramelize buckets of wild mushrooms brought…

Testimony: Louisiana, 1864 At the time when I was raped by a man in uniform, what happened to me…

As recently as May, Bernadette had dressed up in white with all of us other girls on Canal Crest…

My Digits The night before I fly back home, I prick my mother’s finger. She has lancets, alcohol wipes, gauze.…