Author: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
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The Shortlist for April 25, 2025
Nonfiction by Elizabeth Jannuzzi, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo and Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Fiction by Andrea Bishop, Samanta Schweblin, Monte Lin, Bob Johnson, Fionnuala Meehan, and Éva Székely
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Contra by Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
This is kind of a story about deer contraception, but there’s a whole lot more to it than that. Gelfman-Randazzo uses a weird bit of local lore to tell a much more personal story. A deer stares into the camera. An ear-sized tag dangles from her lobe, like the world’s biggest cartilage piercing. It’s dusk.…