Bajadas / Francisco Cantú -- Girl / Alexander Chee -- Against honeymoons / Charles Comey -- Names / Paul Crenshaw -- Ordinary girls / Jaquira Díaz -- My father and the wine / Irina Dumitrescu -- My heart lies between "the fleet" and "all the ships" / Ela Harrison -- Bonds of battle / Sebastian Junger -- Sexual paranoia / Laura Kipnis -- Thin places / Jordan Kisner -- Pyre / Amitava Kumar -- Of human carnage / Richard M. Lange -- Bastards / Lee Martin -- Family tradition / Lisa Nikolidakis -- Lost sister : an elegy / Joyce Carol Oates -- Right/left : a triptych / Marsha Pomerantz -- Big night / Jill Sisson Quinn -- Killing like they do in the movies / Justin Phillip Reed -- A general feeling of disorder / Oliver Sacks -- In praise of contempt / Katherine E. Standefer -- Eleventh commandment / George Steiner -- Namesake / Mason Stokes -- Black and blue and blond / Thomas Chatterton Williams.