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20 PEOPLE HIRED TO HUG by the Gao Brothers
Further Reading
And You Yourself Calliope:
A Conversation with Rosie Stockton
And of course, it’s always important to say that gender, like genre, is a racialized structure.
The Snow Kept Falling by Stanislav Stratiev
(Translated from Russian by Risa Shargel)
Translator’s Note: Under communist rule, the government strongly discouraged celebration of religious holidays. In a pragmatic nod to the difficulty of stopping Christmas celebrations altogether, the government used a carrot-and-stick approach to associate the celebrations with the New Year’s holiday instead. Much as the church had earlier absorbed pagan traditions such as survakane into Christmas, […]
The List of Unusual Deaths
by Deborah Flanagan
In 762, poet Li Po kisses the reflection of the moon beside his boat, falls overboard and drowns. I like men and moons. His head, an old chandelier, going dark. In 1911, Distiller Jack Daniel kicks his safe: can’t remember the combination. Dies from blood poisoning from his infected toe. In 1387, […]
