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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…

Lady Day of the Alhambra

by Ian Penman,

Billie Holiday’s changeable shade

The Coming of Age

by Lucy Sante,

From I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, which was published this month by Penguin Press. For months I was preoccupied with the matter of my name.…

Trapdoor

by Kathleen Alcott,

Where the past overtakes you

Love Bite

by Christian Wiman,

From Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I’ve always loved snakes. Love includes fear—for everyone, I think,…