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Browsing Category Spring 2026
From Scratch
Note from the author: Three years ago, I met a man named Michael Bane, who has maintained his innocence for thirty-eight years on Death Row in Tennessee. I started visiting him in prison, talking to…
Who Gets to Define What Hurts?
Bulseco, Donna, ed. Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine. New York: The Experiment, March 24, 2026. * * * She had just lost her husband. Across the room, the practitioner wrote…
Once Upon a Dream
Obi’m, Last night I dreamt of you. You were driving some kind of truck, I forget the model, but it looked like a cross between an SUV and a convertible. By the time I got…
The Violinmaker
The shop’s sign was violin-shaped, a flat emblem hanging from a thin iron rod. Nicolo watched its shadow stretching and shrinking across the stucco façade. He stood across the square, under a tree that was…