The Identity Hoaxers
What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?
Identity
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Saffron Farm"
A young lover grapples with arrangements and quarantine.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Good Boy"
Hustling and sexual identity in Lagos.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "To Keep the Ghosts Away"
Two Southern neighbors form a layered bond.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Townie"
Details of a quarter-life crisis.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Haunted"
A Black writer haunts a fussy editor.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Mighty Oak"
A hockey player's life spirals out of control.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Parks and Wildlife"
An encounter with a bear opens a strange world of self-discovery.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Packed White Spaces"
A friend's party brings up sad memories and introspection.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Even If All Fall Away, I Will Not"
A queer Black man's chance encounters.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Vanishing Half [Excerpt]"
In the 1960s, a white subdivision prepares for the arrival of a black family.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "People"
Growing up indigenous in Detroit.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Edie Bakes Cakes"
A troubled TV chef meets a mysterious creature.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Always the Harvest"
A futuristic world of scavenging and anatomical harvesting.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Poster"
A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Request"
A young woman in a dead-end job searches for direction.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Nobody Girl"
A flight attendant caught between various loves and worlds.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "You Will Never Be Forgotten"
Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Only Orange"
Grown siblings, relationships, and ways of seeing.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Appendaged"
A neighbor's strange procedure; a couple's disintegrating marriage.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stupid Zebra"
A hockey father's escalating faultsthe.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Juan, Actually"
A night of various crises and personal reflection.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Ruins, 2005"
A student navigates unexpected connections and the threat of terrorism.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Deficit"
A need for money causes interpersonal confusion.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Editor"
Murderous readers and a house of memory.
