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He Who Fishes

By Garen Torikian

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong: Light and Shadows

By Hua Xi and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong

The Shape of Vodou in Diaspora

By Dieu-Nalio Chery and Gabriel Noel

I Am the Ghost Here

By Kim Samek

Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. He was the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman and the grandson of freed slaves. In his lifetime, he was hailed as Brazil’s greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but he was barely translated into English until 1963 and still lacks proper recognition today. This story has been excerpted from the first complete collection in English of his work, The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis.
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Fiction by Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson June 11, 2018
Benjamin tried mentally to close the man’s eyes and straighten his mouth; but no sooner had he done so than the eyelids would lift once again, and the lips resume that ironic sneer.
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