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Rumination

From “Inside Stories,” an essay published in the Winter 2021 issue of Five Points. I used to visit an elderly woman who lived in a single room in an apartment…

Now and Then

by Rebecca Solnit,

The present is by common definition the instant between the not yet and the already, a moment as narrow and treacherous as a tightrope. But you might instead define it…

Remains of the Day

by Christa Wolf, Katy Derbyshire,

By Christa Wolf (1929–2011), from One Day a Year, a journal that she kept each September 27 from 1960 until her death. The most recent volume will be published next month by…

Romancing Kano

by Glenna Gordon,

Photographs from northern Nigeria

Keeping Time

by Sarah Manguso,

By Sarah Manguso, from Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, out in March from Graywolf Press. Manguso is the author of several books, including The Guardians and The Two Kinds…

The Last Witnesses

by Meline Toumani,

By Meline Toumani, adapted from her first book, There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond, out this month from Metropolitan…

From a letter by Agafya Lykova, a seventy-year-old hermit living in the Siberian province of Khakassia, to Vladimir Pavlovsky, editor in chief of the Krasnoyarsk Worker newspaper, which published the…

Youth Crouching

by Mark Cohen,

One Red Glove

by Mark Cohen,

Drawn by the Sun

by Katy Grannan,

Untitled

by Samuel James,

Older women

Rumination

Now and Then

Remains of the Day

Romancing Kano

Keeping Time

The Last Witnesses

Antisocial Media

Youth Crouching

One Red Glove

Drawn by the Sun

Untitled

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Rumination

Now and Then

Remains of the Day

Romancing Kano

Keeping Time

The Last Witnesses

Antisocial Media

Youth Crouching

One Red Glove

Drawn by the Sun

Untitled

September 2012

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