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Nicole Rifkin’s “On the M Train”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the pleasures of living in the city is the proximity to so many disparate lives, a constellation of inner worlds imagined but unknown. Nicole Rifkin, an illustrator and graphic…

Why Lydia Davis Loves Misunderstandings

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2019, the literary magazine NOON published a story by Lydia Davis called “The Language of Armagnac,” a quietly comic meditation on the difficulties of translating “the patois of the city…