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Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive: Stories by Alison Gadsby

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The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them by Aziz Rana

Fiction Reviews

Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive: Stories by Alison Gadsby

Python’s Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich

Land by Maggie O’Farrell

Talking to the Wolf by Rebecca Chace

Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive: Stories by Alison Gadsby

Guernica Review by Brian Tanguay Competitive or recreational swimming is a tableau for most of the nineteen stories in this collection, along with family conflict, failed love and humanoids with…

Python’s Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne

The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind by Rosa Montero, translated by Lindsey Ford

Go-Between Girl: My Indentured Roots As Reclaimed Present by Andrea Gunraj

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