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Diary
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The Monkey in the Whirlpool
That was the end of the dream. And then the man covered his face and began to cry, because he was reminded of his dead father, who once told him he had a gift.
Translated by Samuel Rutter
Fiction
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The Let-Out
So much is made about the importance of depth in human interactions, but what about the delicate surface, what about the skin?
Fiction
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Four Stories
It was time at last for a full renunciation of the way I had been living, fast then slow, the blood and brain, the inner dynamo.
Fellow
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Almost Human
They said never to trust an Indian who doesn’t want to go back to his own reservation.
Portfolio
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The Travelogues of Ahmad Fа̄ris Shidyа̄q
The concept of civilization has acquired such popularity.
Correspondence
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137 Northeast Regional
I would have fallen in love with him too had not so many others done so already.
Fiction
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Woman Sleeping
"Bodies are difficult," said the woman when the child finally slipped inside the dream.
Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Memoir
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Outside Inside
Baz and I had Fame and Rejection. We lived in a flow of contradiction.
Cahiers
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Time’s Weather
I let myself be carried by my language as if it were endowed with tiny wings.
Translated by Alexander Booth
Feature
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
My first encounter with before and after was in one of the fashion magazines my friends told me to subscribe to when I came to America.
Feature
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Almanac
History is in the panorama, buried like old stones or sediment from an older era.
Feature
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A Stubborn Desire
The way of Saint James, a pilgrimage route culminating at the tomb of Saint James in Santiago Compostela in Spain, passed through Bordeaux during the Middle Ages.