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The Spring 2026 issue is online now — our cover, a painting by Mamma Andersson, accompanies an essay in which Stephanie Wambugu identifies what is so distinctive about the novels of Vidgis Hjorth: women protagonists who maintain a rare combination of agency and lack of restraint, even as they confront the families and lovers who have betrayed them.

 

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