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Ketamine

By Bria Adimora Godley

from Beyond the Somber Station

By Liliana Ponce, translated by Michael Martin Shea

rising to the earth’s height

By Raquel Salas Rivera, translated from the Spanish by Carla Canseco

Safety Town

By Ilana Bean

John Biguenet

John Biguenet has published nine books, including Oyster, a novel, and The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories, released in the U.S. by Ecco/HarperCollins and widely translated, as well as Silence and The Rising Water Trilogy most recently; six of his plays have been produced nationally. His work has received an O. Henry Award for short fiction and a Harper's Magazine Writing Award among other distinctions, and his poems, stories, plays, and essays have been reprinted or cited in The Best American Mystery Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Best American Short Stories, Best Music Writing, The Best of the Best, Contemporary Poetry in America, Katrina on Stage, and various other anthologies. His work has appeared in such magazines as The Atlantic, Esquire, Granta, Guernica, Image, Lit Hub, The New Republic, North American Review, One Story, Oxford American, Playboy, Southern Review, Spolia (Berlin), Storie (Rome), Story, The Sun, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and Zoetrope.
The American South: On the Map and in the Mind Commentary Religion

Astonishing Yankees

By John Biguenet March 17, 2014
W alker Percy once complained that the problem with being identified as a Southern writer is that then you have to spend the rest of your life astonishing Yankees. These days, astonishing Yankees seems to require no more than filming a story in Louisiana. In True Blood, True Detective, Swamp People, Cajun Pawn Stars, and […]
The American South: On the Map and in the Mind Commentary Politics

The Story of Senator Henry

By John Biguenet March 17, 2014
B orn in Virginia, Henry was an ideal Renaissance man of the antebellum South: a student of the classics, lawyer, author of books on military history, founder of one of the Territory of Alabama’s first colleges, and head of the U.S. Mint in New Orleans, he also served terms as both a US senator and […]
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