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What We’re Reading: February 2025

February 21, 2025 Reviews

This month, contributors KATHARINE HALLS, THEA MATTHEWS, and OLGA ZILBERBOURG take your reading lists to Prague, Damascus, and New York City with four poetry and fiction recommendations that are wholly absorbing, in their stories and settings alike.

Bohumil Hrabal’s I Served the King of England, trans. Paul Wilson; recommended by TC Online Contributor Olga Zilberbourg

In Montgomery County

October 21, 2024 Audio, Issue 28, Issue 28 Poetry, Poetry, Poetry Recordings

By THEA MATTHEWS

The Common Magazine · “In Montgomery County” by Thea Matthews

Maryland, 2020

My partner wears the panopticon,
and I carry the rope. Hungry
for the rush, the chase, we locate
the missing black calf
about two-tenths of a mile
from East Silver Spring.
He’s wearing a long-sleeve
jersey T-shirt, navy blue jeans.