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Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Life, Lies, Suffering, and More

Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author: “What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”…

Happy birthday, John Berger! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The past grows gradually around one, like…

By Joe Sacksteder In the 2001 black-and-white space cowboy musical, The American Astronaut, writer/director Cory McAbee sought to write…

Happy birthday, Edward Said! Here’s a PDF of his book very much pertinent book The Question of Palestine. And here…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Katherine M. Hedeen! Celebrate by reading “Two Poems from Erroneous Song,” by Antonio Gamoneda, which…

I had only planted the clockseeds yesterday. Not only that, the air was dry as an empty lung. And…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Tobias Carroll! Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction we published in 2019! Carroll was an…

The crying room—a fancy of certain Northern homes, earlier in the century—is simply a chamber off the parlor, to…

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Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant Note from the author: This story comprises seven parts…