...James Jabar James Jabar Choose a Story Where Eulogies Are Never Given but families still come to collect the ashes after the bodies are burned in undisclosed locations, after latex-covered hands have kissed them goodbye w/out care w/out permission, w/out the sound of hymns to ease the transition...

...Stephanie Friedman Copyright © 2019 Stephanie Friedman 2019 Stephanie Friedman Traveling: A Love Story Year One Intercourse. Blue Ball. We laughed at the town names, but I had to admit the Amish were being fruitful. Dresses hung on the line upside down, pinned from the hem so they swelled...

...Douglas Trevor © 2014 Douglas Trevor 2014 Douglas Trevor The Novelist and the Short Story Writer She had written two novels by the age of twenty-seven and was known, by the time she went to the Upstart Conference in the Hills to teach, as an author of peculiar power and enviable sales...

...Catherine Pierce © 2014 Catherine Pierce 2014 Catherine Pierce True Story In the tales I used to tell, I was the queen of peril, and my listeners, I knew, hallelujahed my every survival. In one true story, the car slid to a gasping collision and I emerged...

...Emily O'Neill © 2016 Emily O'Neill 2016 Emily O’Neill a story so touching it must be told with a whip how can you go home when your mother calls you James & everyone else knows you’re Candy do you ever get tired of changing clothes & beating your face in doorways can’t pay for anything...

...John F. Buckley; Martin Ott © 2016 John F. Buckley and Martin Ott 2016 John F. Buckley and Martin Ott Origin Stories Overheard at Enemies Anonymous My dad, a crooked cop, would lock me in the closet. I used the time to meditate, learning to master my mind and rage until I blew down...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Jeffrey J. Williams Science Stories: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway With her concept of the “cyborg,” Donna Haraway provided a new way to think about the relation between modern technology and organisms, showing how...

...Carrie Shipers © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 the minnesota review Carrie Shipers War Stories Days, in the factory that killed his father, he blocked caps with crooked fingers, knuckles smashed flat or ridged from being broken...

... migration, identity, language, translation, and geography, both rooted in France and routed along treacherous seaways. Shumona Sinha’s novel Assommons les pauvres also focuses on the experiences of the privileged immigrant narrator whose story is a core part of the novel. Sinha has the privilege to narrate...

..., and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of migration and their colonial histories. Scego discusses her resistance to the category of “migrant writer” and the challenge of retelling stories of postcolonial African diaspora to Italy...

... for such worldings is to be found in the concept of shared, quotidian affliction, following the work—including the work of both living and dying—of Simone Weil. The entry point into a nonhuman reading of Weil is Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel, I Love Dick , which here becomes a story at the threshold of the human-animal...

... Apartment Stories and the homosocial relations among women in Victorian literature in her book Between Women . Last, it discusses coediting the new journal Public Books . © 2017 Virginia Tech 2017 surface reading politics of criticism critical method comparative literature feminist theory...

.... The “politics of mobility” also determines migrants’ modes of conviviality and labor. Hage’s protagonists survive by maneuvering underground, in the interstices of the city, or in a cab, their space of work and mobility in the city, and using a rich verbal medley to tell its myriad stories. Thus Hage presents...

... homology, the mythographic mode is a central idiom within these schools of thought, accounting in part for their allure to literary scholars, whose attachments to otherworldly stories are similarly inherited from the mythographic tradition. © 2013 Virginia Tech 2013 Works Cited Bennett Jane...

... sees himself as giving voice to a sizable, if often silent, community of critics who find themselves doing critical/philosophical work but whose account of the past clashes with the official story of the emergence of “theory.” Unlike the Norton Anthology , which considers post-structuralist concepts...

... to dominant migration discourse through his deliberate narrative strategy of building his short stories around different experiences of exploited and estranged individuals who are often positioned outside the narrative itself. The article establishes two focuses: one historical, the other literary. First...

... from Bondi Beach, a weekend at The Entrance, and a camping trip in the Blue Mountains. They talk about waterfalls and walking trails. They talk about their dads starting campfires and telling ghost stories. They start their spiels with This weekend, we made memories by . . . The girl knows...

...: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Brand Stewart . 2009 . “ Four Sides to Every Story .” New York Times , 15 December . www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/opinion/15brand.html . Chakrabarty Dipesh . 2009...

... short-story writer studying creative writing at Boise State University where she has served on the editorial staff of Idaho Review. Risë earned an MSW at the University of Houston. She holds a BFA in drama from minnesota review 98 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9563905 © 2021 Virginia Tech 93 94...

... fleshes out this thesis through an influential reading of The Story ofO. The identity of the author, Dominique Aury, while an open secret in Paris for some time, did not become public until 1994; previously, American feminists had often claimed that the novel was a distortion of female...