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Fiction
Character entangled in circumstance. Revelations of language and self under pressure.
Salman Toor, The Inheritors (detail), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, N.Y. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
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Woundwood
by Melvin Li
AGNI 97 Family Home Sexuality
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The Last Train
by Koye Oyedeji
AGNI 95 Class Education Ethnicity
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It’s Because We’re So Poor
by Juan Rulfo
Translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans
AGNI 71 Family Sexuality Youth
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Swordfished in Nantucket
by Terese Svoboda
Online 2019 Aging Family Food
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Clytemnestra
by Gania Barlow
AGNI 62 Loss Relationships Violence
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Gaza, Goats, and the Art of Patience: A Conversation with Jeff Talarigo
by Jennifer De Leon
Online 2012 Travel Violence Writing Process

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