The scent of cumin and coriander filled the small apartment as Shahriar Aman stirred the bhuna khichuri, the wooden spoon moving in practiced circles against the bottom of the heavy-bottomed pot.
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Jeremy Turner — Excerpt: Capital T travel with a two-year-old turned out far from perfect; we left a failed Airbnb choice and the body of a departed soul in our wake.
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Michael Smith — Excerpt: There is a Chinese saying (some would say a curse): “May you live in interesting times.”
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Before I met him, I figured that anyone with the audacity to name himself “Atlas” must be terribly pretentious, terribly tortured, or both.
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The blood pools in my palm like spilled wine, warm and thick, dripping between my fingers onto the subway floor where it mingles with twenty years of New York grime.








