The Things We Never Say
A history teacher plans his death in private, undone by a disclosure that rewrites the marriage behind it.
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How to Make a Woman
Two accounts of the same fifteen years, measuring what one woman inherits against what the other improvises across the road.
Butcher's Crossing
A young man bankrolls a buffalo hunt to find himself in nature, and finds a machine that pays nobody.
Black Bag
A failed actor paid to sit in a leather bag, drawing more notice hidden than his face ever earned.
All Them Dogs
Violence taken up as courtship in West Dublin, turning every order from a lover into a form of love.
Hurricane Season
A woman's murder narrated as folklore, exposing the contempt that made her killable long before anyone raised a knife.
Helen of Nowhere
A disgraced professor's self-knowledge restaged as evidence, ending in a shape borrowed from every story about men like him.
The Mulai
An archaeologist's report passed off as ethnography, compiling a whole society out of one man's failure to tell people apart.
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Prison sentences spoken as university degrees, returning each political abstraction to the people required to live inside it.
When violence enters the routine
An essay about what follows an act of violence, and Marlon James’s forthcoming The Disappearers.
South
Political injury reassigned as private failure, each record altered before it can testify, until only the safer account survives in print.
The Watching Monad
A colleague's fear read as desire, alternating narration turning workplace access into administratively easy pursuit.