Before the Next World Cup

Fiction
By: | November 2, 2010

It was Amichai’s idea, those wishes.After Emanuel Petit scored the third goal and it was already clear that France would take the Cup, and there was a faint sense… More

Homesick

Fiction
By: | February 17, 2010

It can’t go on like this. There’s the smell of breaking up in the air of the apartment, like the smell of potatoes cooking. Noa puts on her tracksuit… More

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This is the children's section in Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan.
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PEN America joined with @pressfreedom and 19 other partner organizations to express concern regarding the implications for press freedom of the Department of Justice’s case against Julian Assange, and calling for charges to be dropped. https://pen.org/julian-assange-letter/

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