In Gabura, a river island in southwestern Bangladesh, the waiting room of the local health centre fills up before the doors even open. The women who arrive facing miscarriages,...
Col. Grigori Aleksandro Aleksandrovich, Retd. claimed his own labeled vodka was radical-free, and one would never wake with a headache in the morning if...
"Glück’s voice was shaped by bedtime stories narrated to her by her father, a Hungarian immigrant to the USA, who helped invent the X-Acto knife. The influence shows: her writing is as knife-sharp, incisive, and clean as a bone."
"My excess baggage had resulted in a handbag full of hostile playdates: a downcast novella, one teaspoon of sanitizer, two broken chargers, a single shoe from a pair of Doc Martens, and a beanie.”
"It’s quite fine, you suddenly notice—the panoramic view, the Calacatta marble, the artwork, the baby grand. It is what you’d always wanted, but you don’t cherish it one bit."