The stories in Ben Marcus's "New American Stories" place the U.S. on an operating table.
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A waiter can be so much more than a server, particularly in Rome, where serving is an art.
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Thanks to a website called Workaway, a rundown B&B in Le Marche is getting the fix it needs.
A Cure for Suicide
In Jesse Ball's unsettling novel, suicide has a "cure" of sorts, but the price is profoundly surreal.
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In Sumner, Mississippi, a groundskeeper stirs memories of a darkness that won't go away.
Cells
Weather can seem to take the temperature of humans, not the other way around.