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She Who Helps See

George Saunders | Paris Review | 24th March 2025

Celebrated writer pens admiring portrait of artist Inka Essenhigh. “Her work, sacramentally, reminds me that most of the time I’m coasting, on perceptual autopilot. It says: “George, let me help you see better, with more acuity and less habituation. Let me help you expand the miracle of your awareness and become a more generous noticer. Try to know less. Stay with the not-knowing a little longer”” (2,300 words)

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I Spent Seven Years In Search Of Freedom

Pouya Nikmand | Outliving Iran | 23rd March 2025

Harrowing account of a young man’s escape from Iran to America. Wherever he goes — South Korea, Poland — immigration laws bar him from study or work. A middle-aged European man preys on his precarity, trapping him in a cycle of rape and abuse. Out of options, he plans to enter Germany illegally and kill himself. At last, his US visa arrives, though it would be two more years before he is allowed to work (4,000 words)