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the state shall remain nameless by manan ahmed asif

The State shall remain nameless. For the purpose of this narrative, let us call it not-Dubai. I went to not-Dubai at the age of six. My father had been in not-Dubai since I was three. He had sent me…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2466 words)

The Meaning of White

The visitors come from all wards of the hospital. There is an audiologist, a social worker, a lactation consultant, a rotating cast of doctors, and an endless stream of nurses. We have a private…
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5642 words)

under the iron snout: a first take on olfactory imperialism by adam flynn

The scent of items cooking on a stove, the whiff of an air freshener, or even the foul smell associated with a ruptured sewage line are all intimate details of a home that are expected to remain…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2879 words)

Missing Out

In his first term at college in London, Majdy wrote letters home announcing that he would not make it, threatening that he would give up and return. to call him on the phone, his mother made several…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (603 words)

A Rape in Cyberspace

(Or TINYSOCIETY, and How to Make One) Chapter One of Julian Dibbell s My Tiny Life , 1998. (First published in somewhat different form in The Village Voice , December 1993.) They say he raped them…
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9289 words)

Places: A Rumination On Cities

Deepak Unnikrishnan From Abu Dhabi to the East Coast, a temporary resident negotiates the urban spaces that built him. By Deepak UnnikrishnanJanuary 14, 2013 | Deepak Unnikrishnan, Drunken Boat,…
AUTHOR:AAWW Staff
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2940 words)
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How to be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity

A twentysomething—living with three autoimmune disorders—tells us about the state of bodies under capitalism, the notion of productivity, and her own experience in biomedical purgatory.…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6145 words)

running in place by sophie chamas

“What’s Qatar?” I asked, when my father told me we were moving there. It was 2001, I was 13, and I had never known a home other than the two-bedroom apartment we owned in Mar…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2314 words)
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impeccable tenderness by francisco salas pérez

// a tyranny of madeleines // I’m tired of madeleines, and the thought of madeleines. I’m tired of Proust as well. Though I’ve never read the man, the smell of Proust and his…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1804 words)
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