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Village of Dolls

From Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, which will be published next month by Graywolf Press. Some people say Tsukimi Ayano makes her life-sized dolls out of…

Our Pierre

by Cormac James,

From Trondheim, which was published last month by Bellevue Literary Press. On the day their son was going to die, Lil had given herself the task of carrying forty-plus sacks…

New Books

by Dan Piepenbring,

I was six the first time I recall setting foot in a funeral home, and I remember my confusion at the phrase—a home where none but the dead lived, and…

Ghost in the Machine

From a statement explaining the inclusion of a tape recorder in the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1968, exactly fifty years ago, my father passed away, leaving…