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Moses and Ruth exit the municipal palace, and Moses hurries toward the striking sanitation workers to congratulate them on their spirited performance.

12m read Translated from Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman

In certain couples who bitterly persevere in their lives together, consoling themselves with the thought that happy marriages are rarer than snow in Egypt...

26m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu

Walking with Ana from Slatinanu, where the Party organization had its headquarters, to Cuza-voda,1 we’d come home late, as late as possible.

18m read Translated from Romanian by Jean Harris

Vashti leaned back into the shadows, making sure her cloak covered her completely. Since fleeing for her life, she had perfected the art of invisibility...

15m read

He is an old man. Years ago, when he first came here, he thought it would be different. In the restaurant where he ate his first meal...

26m read Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

‘I can’t hire you,’ Mrs. Pimentel said. ‘I’m sorry, Pamela, we’re all Jewish here.’ When Pam laughed, she looked surprised, even a little offended...

27m read

Mark, my son who is soon to turn forty, and Liz, the daughter-in-law I barely know, are herding my two grandchildren towards the red Ford station wagon...

21m read

‘Where is my father’s money?’ said Léontine to her brother. ‘My father left a lot of money. He was a carpenter, very skilled, and when he died he left a large...

7m read Translated from Ladino by Michael Alpert

For the heat, she was unprepared. She had packed a ski jacket, military socks, thermal undershirts. She had borrowed everything on offer...

27m read Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

Trunk or cannon? There! Something lumbered slowly across the border, and Kfir hesitated – Elephant or tank?...

44m read Translated from Hebrew by Margalit Rodgers

One evening in May 1973, Ana Šomlo met the writer Zoran Gluscevic in Belgrade. In conversation she mentioned that she was reading Letters to Milena.

26m read Translated from Serbian by Maya Shlivic

‘The prosecution calls Mr. Fear to the stand.’ Mr. Fear, a tiny, stooped, reddish creature made his way to the stand.

25m read

Bia and Abe Schneider had lived together for eight years, since Bia was two and Abe sixty-five. Bia found nothing strange in their situation...

19m read

It shot out of the sky. Like a cannon ball, the thing plummeted to earth. It trailed a red and white plume that looked like something being peeled, perhaps ripped...

28m read

Whether or not Zaminski was a teacher by profession, no one knew and no one thought to inquire. Whether he had students in the city...

17m read Translated from Yiddish by Vivian Felsen

Perhaps I did not mention that, because of being in a terrorist attack, I was on pretty heavy painkillers, Demerol in fact...

25m read