Contents

Cover

Introduction

John Freeman

Seven Shorts

David Searcy

Dinaw Mengestu

Pola Oloixarac

Fiona McFarlane

Marius Chivu

Claire Vaye Watkins

Andrés Felipe Solano

The Stoker

Nadifa Mohamed

Beauty

Solmaz Sharif

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo

Come and Eat the Largest Shrimp Cocktail in the World in the Region of the Worst Massacres in Mexico

Diego Enrique Osorno

The Case That Got Away

A Yi

Where Are You, Sweetheart

Mariana Enríquez

A First-Rate Material

Sayaka Murata

History of Violence

Édouard Louis

The Liberator

Tania James

Twenty After Midnight

Daniel Galera

Sympathy of a Clear Day

Ishion Hutchinson

Good Girls

Sunjeev Sahota

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Athena Farrokhzad

An Unlucky Man

Samanta Schweblin

The Dog’s Been Barking All Day

Xu Zechen

With Nothing to Hide

Garnette Cadogan

I Is Another

Valeria Luiselli

The Flower Garden

Mieko Kawakami

Partly True Poem Reflected in a Mirror

Ocean Vuong

A Song for Robin

Heather O’Neill

Max, Mischa, and the Tet Offensive

Johan Harstad

Bearded

Ross Raisin

Contributor Notes

Credits

Previous Issues

About the Editor

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