Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut novel, The Fallen—a withering portrait of a Cuban family with conflicting visions of their country and their roles within it—was pub…
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Wolf Food (prologue)
by Marina and Sergey Dyachenkotranslated by Katie Kassam
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Photo by Evelyn Paris / UnsplashNational Anthem
This is my room, it
is called Iceland. A sea cable fastens
it to Europe and to here and
from here…
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