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By Brian Blanchfield, from Proxies, an essay collection that will be published in April by Nightboat Books. Blanchfield is the author, most recently, of A Several World, a volume of…

Where Numbers Become Flesh

by Michael W. Clune,

From Gamelife, by Michael Clune, out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Clune is also the author of White Out, an account of his heroin addiction.

A Goose in a Dress

by Tanya Gold,

In which our intrepid restaurant critic submits to the dreams and excesses of New York’s most fashionable eateries

Surviving a Failed Pregnancy

by Vanessa Gregory,

The medical ordeal no one wants to talk about

Dissolution by Details

by Ruth Franklin,

Bellow and the problems of literary biography

In Search of a Stolen Fiddle

by Abe Streep,

From the pawnshops of Portland to the con men of Craigslist

Biography

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To Laugh That We May Not Weep

Same Mistakes

Getting to the End

We was All Bent, Son

The Body Politic

There’s the Rub

Where Numbers Become Flesh

A Goose in a Dress

Surviving a Failed Pregnancy

Dissolution by Details

In Search of a Stolen Fiddle

May 2015

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