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Pit of Despair

by Kate Lebo,

From The Book of Difficult Fruit, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1. My mother’s sister died of breast cancer when she was thirty-four and I…

Cat Burglar

From a sign posted inside Catnap, a café in Christchurch, New Zealand. So you’ve ordered a muffin. Our wobbly tabby cat Bea really likes muffins, so there are a few…

More Than Thankful

by Rhonda Y. Williams, Lana Dee Povitz, Monica M. White,

Farm to table: the history of food activism in the United States

Something About Eating

by Robert Walser,

By Robert Walser (1878–1956), from Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories, a collection that will be published next month by NYRB Classics. Translated from the German by Tom Whalen.