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Fancy Formatting in Poetry
Fancy formatting in poetry flatters mediocrity. Real verse lives in the voice, not on the page.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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The Deer Fence
A woman’s sleepless night spirals into horror and revelation when a deer impales itself on a backyard tree and her husband is nowhere to be found. “She screamed his name…
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Fujiyama, 1923
An opium-addicted professor ascends Mt. Fuji in 1923, chasing sunrise, haunted by illness, memory, and the blurred line between salvation and surrender. “Opium. It has the power to set you…
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Consecration
A lyrical journey through grief, memory, and mysticism, where loss seeks form, and fleeting beauty becomes a sacrament of the soul. “It was just a lamp, a tree in rainfall,…
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European vs American Writing: Proximity and Distance
European literature is born from enforced proximity. From the impossibility of sealing oneself off completely. From the daily friction of languages, classes, resentments, affections, histories, all occupying the same physical…
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Blue Durango
A retired DEA agent smuggles Chinese migrants across the Mexico–U.S. border, evading cartels and corruption in a perilous bid for freedom and asylum.
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What Old Medicine Can Teach Us About Love | Corey Mertes
A young couple’s love unfolds across time in seven lyrical vignettes exploring memory, healing, and the emotional logic of old-world medicine.
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Best Laid Plans
Dickran risks everything to build a secret memorial in the Syrian desert, honoring the Armenian genocide amid a nation torn by civil war. “If these sands could talk – of…
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Why Belgium Subsidizes Languages Instead of Writers
Belgium funds languages, not writers—protecting symbols over people in a multilingual society where English quietly leads among the young. “When subsidies are attached to language rather than to writers, the…
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Lydia Renfro | TBR Winter 2025
Fiction editor Filippo Beltrami speaks with Lydia Renfro on place, Turkey, food, language, and cultural displacement behind her story “Greetings From.” “Story moves us past superficial differences and shows how…