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Death in Grammar
“Oh, how I admire the capacity of the Spanish language to express uncertainty so precisely!”
The Rainforest Speaks
Scientists are recording the sounds of the Amazon in a bid to better protect it.
Butcher Ding
“I never expected that tai chi sword would become a special type of physical therapy for me.”
Man in a White Overcoat
“The coat fit him like a glove. The vendor spun him around, and the flared skirt fluttered outward.”
Time of the Flies
“So that’s what I call myself when I’m alone, the name Charo wrote in lip liner at the end of the letters she sent to Ernesto, my husband. Excuse me, my ex-husband.”
The Deserter
“Tomorrow I’d be sent to the front lines. Then I noticed my missing leg had sent me a letter.”
Adopted by Russia
Hundreds of Ukrainian orphans taken from the Donbas region are now stranded in the Kremlin’s orphanage system.
Letters from Exile
“What can I do, I will always be, at heart, an emigrant — but what lessons have I drawn from it?”
César Aira’s Magic
How the eccentric Argentine author took over Latin American literature.