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An Emptiness Yet to Come

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Sad Ballad of Wyckoff

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Harvest

By Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Anna Bruno: Suspense, Secular Gods, and Scandal in an Elite Catholic School

Maria Kuznetsova Interviews Anna Bruno

Asja Bakic

Asja Bakic is a Bosnian author of poetry and prose, as well as a translator. She was selected as one of Literary Europe Live's New Voices from Europe 2017, and her writing has been translated into seven languages. She currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Abby

Excerpted from Mars: Stories by Asja Bakic and translated from Bosnian by Jennifer Zoble February 26, 2019
I remembered that I’d learned Swahili, that I spoke French and German fluently. Was I a spy? I also knew Russian, Arabic, and Spanish. It was obvious that languages came easily to me. Who is this man? I kept asking myself. Who is Abby?
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