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In a Waxworks

by Max Blecher, Michael Henry Heim,

From Adventures in Immediate Irreality, by Max Blecher, out next month from New Directions. Blecher, who wrote frequently about his experiences of depersonalization, was born in Romania in 1909 and…

Two Parts

by Stephen Dixon,

Let’s see, how do I start this? With my father or with Lotte? My father. It’s already more formed in my head, so it’ll be easier getting into. I told…

Aaron Rosenblum

by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock,Translated by Lawrence Venuti,

By J. Rodolfo Wilcock, from The Temple of Iconoclasts, recently published by David R. Godine. Wilcock (1919–1978) was an Argentine poet, novelist, and translator who emigrated to Italy. Translated from…

Admiral Nelson

by Jean Echenoz, Linda Coverdale,

By Jean Echenoz, from The Queen’s Caprice, a story collection forthcoming from the New Press. Echenoz is the author of several books, including, most recently, 1914. Translated from the French…

Growing Up

by Joshua Cohen, Christine Smallwood, Karen Russell, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Amie Barrodale, Suketu Mehta, Wells Tower,

Five coming-of-age stories

Hammer Island

by Wells Tower,

Over the Fourth of July holiday in 1985, when I was seventeen years old, the film producer Morris Walls took me to Hammer Island. This is an island shaped like…

Forbidden City

by Geoff Dyer,

On the morning of his visit to the Forbidden City, the last day of his China trip, James woke exhausted, as he had almost every day he had been there.…

The Great Exception

by Rachel Kushner,

By Rachel Kushner, from The Strange Case of Rachel K, out in February 2015 from New Directions. Kushner is the author of the novels Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers.

Climbers

by Helen DeWitt,

“The thing you have to understand is that I really don’t understand people.” Gil sat on a squashy old sofa, legs akimbo, forearms on thighs. He was wearing a dark-green…

Hitler in Chicago

by David Albahari,Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać,

By David Albahari, from Learning Cyrillic, a collection of short stories forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press in December. Albahari is a Serbian novelist whose books include Words Are Something Else,…

The House on Bony Lake

by Robert Boswell,

The lake is still and the stars are mammoth. She glides beneath the surface, a dark form he can follow but cannot see until she passes through starlight, this long-limbed…

Fiction

In a Waxworks

Two Parts

Aaron Rosenblum

Admiral Nelson

Growing Up

Hammer Island

Forbidden City

The Great Exception

Climbers

Hitler in Chicago

The House on Bony Lake

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Fiction

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In a Waxworks

Two Parts

Aaron Rosenblum

Admiral Nelson

Growing Up

Hammer Island

Forbidden City

The Great Exception

Climbers

Hitler in Chicago

The House on Bony Lake

October 2014

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