Category: Special Features
“A Magical, Marvelous, or Fantastic Chronicle of Death Not Yet Told” by John T. Howard
An extensive (maCRo?) essay on magical realism in Latin American literature, family history, Colombia, and the magical in the everyday.
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Special Feature: “Mrs. Williams [Or, A Study of Postmodernism and the Many Ways That Walls Are Broken]” by Julie Marie Wade
Web exclusive: Julie Marie Wade’s essay on a childhood friend’s family and the ways they surprised her.
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Special Feature: “My Great Hunger” by Stephanie Early Green
An essay on the intergenerational experience of eating and hunger issues, with photographs.
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On Being Envious of Able-Bodied Writers from the Global North
Mugabi Byenkya writes about envying writers who can submit to publications and opportunities he cannot.
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I was envious of Anna Akhmatova. So I translated her poems, sort of.
Noah Berlatsky on envying other poets and also their translators, with an eye on the Jewish diaspora.
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Sympathy for the Devil: Garnering Sympathy for Your Envious Villains
A craft essay by J. D. Harlock on well-designed, complex villains in fiction.
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Sitting Tight While Others Celebrate: Navigating Envy While on Submission
Colleen Rothman describes feeling envy of other novelists with her short-story collection out on submission to editors.
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The Music is Envy: On James Salter’s A Sport and a Pastime
Adam Sobsey looks at different layers of envy in James Salter’s novel A Sport and a Pastime.
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On Envy and Time: A Craft Essay
Lisa Low on how the experience of envy is related to time, especially during the process of revision.
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Folio: Jealousy and Envy
In this folio to accompany issue 21.1, six writers explore jealousy and envy.
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Special Feature: “Distilling Ephemera, Translating Observations,” by Michael Colbert
“I set out to photograph collections of objects in order to think about the bric-a-brac that populates my life.”
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Special Feature: “I Love You to Mars” by Chloe N. Clark
This story about travel to Mars features gritty descriptions (literally) and a narrative technique that embraces simultaneity of experiences.
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