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Volume 66, Issue 4

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ONE FATHER in a khaki jumpsuit branded with “Correctional Facility” smiles as he supports his fourteen-year-old’s interest in saving the bees through the telephone. In a prison waiting room, another father liesgently to his six-year-old son that the boy’s mother is not incarcerated at all, but at a “police training academy,” where . . .

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Reading by J. D. Mathes

J. D. Mathes from our Winter Special Issue, INCARCERATION & FAMILY, reads his essay “Momma Tried”: Video recorded and edited by Mathes. J. D. Mathes grew up a feral child in the deserts of the American Southwest who loved to read library books. He is a PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow, . . .

A WINTER’S TALE¹

Reviewing Joshua Colangelo-Bryan’s Through the Gates of Hell. American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay (Humanitas Media, 2025), 224 pp. I. Buddies When you pick up a book written by a lawyer for Guantanamo detainees, knowing that it will contain an account of his work representing those clients, the last thing you expect to . . .

10 Questions for Steven R. Kraaijeveld

66. IT SHOULD be noted that, to date, there is no physical evidencethat Anna Kavan had cats. Her surviving letters, diaries, notebooks, marginalia, memorabilia,and photographs contain no signs of felines. Nevertheless, a substantialbody of Kavan scholarship has formed around the question of Kavan’scats.—from Steven R. Kraaijeveld’s “Anna Kavan’s Cats” (Volume 66, issue . . .

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10 Questions for Alan Grostephan

ALAN GROSTEPHAN is the author of The Banana Wars and Bogotá, a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and longlisted for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is also the editor and translator of Stories of Life and Death, a collection of writing by emerging Colombian writers.

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