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Conspiracies of Silence

…abduction, as recalled by her children, was the housing block’s uncanny emptiness, “almost as if the area had been cleared.” A crueler detail was the neighbors’ seeming indifference, even hostility,…

Unreliable Narrators

…social world has been almost completely upended, due in part to the machinations of their Theatre Arts teacher, Mr. Kingsley, the aptly named puppet-master of the CAPA universe. “Mr. Kingsley…

Small Mercies

In A Small Thing to Want, a collection of short stories by Johnson City writer Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, the most vital moments are often the most private. Cawood’s stories occupy…

Child of the Green Routine

…relief from devastating symptoms when conventional medicine offered few options. Stories like Meridy’s place the rapidly evolving legal and cultural status of all cannabis-related products into fascinating perspective. “The AIDS…

The Paradise, The Grave, The City, The Wilderness

…as more than a colorful swirl of imagery. They provide a structural conceit that allows Smith to organize two millennia’s worth of material about Rome’s history and people. In “The…

The Fringe of Dream

…novelist William Burroughs. Her rock performances grew organically out of her first poetry readings. When announcing that Smith will receive this year’s PEN America Literary Service Award, PEN President and…

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