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“He just bit me!” I said. The woman stood upright and pushed her hair away from her face. She was pretty except for her mouth, which was…

08.12.2025 by Swedan Margen

Watch “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong.” Gary Shteyngart was just seven years old when his family emigrated from the Soviet Union and settled in…

24.09.2025 by Swedan Margen

The popular girl at my elementary school—let’s call her Denise—was not blond like Barbie but pretty in a conventional manner I envied. She…

14.09.2025 by Swedan Margen

In 1982, I began shooting an almost entirely improvised film,“This Is Spinal Tap,” which also happened to be my first as a director. It…

27.08.2025 by Swedan Margen

In 1981, I was a student of art history at Columbia University. I was twenty-one and worked to support myself at a variety of jobs.…

30.06.2025 by Swedan Margen

A woman is running. In the path, a man appears as if from nowhere. He is masked and he holds a knife. What are her choices? On one side is…

26.05.2025 by Swedan Margen

The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.…

23.03.2025 by Swedan Margen

My friend Sukrit invited me to India. His mother lived in Delhi. He said I should get out of England and give my eyes something new to…

10.02.2025 by Swedan Margen

This is the fifth article in the “Tabula Rasa” series. Read Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four. Bleb “Bleb” is worth eight points in…

13.01.2025 by Swedan Margen