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Broken Links, by Hari Kunzru

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A young woman is waiting in her New York apartment for her fiancé to arrive and take her to city hall to get married. When he doesn’t turn up, she goes to his address, only to find that he never lived there. She has no way of getting in touch with him, and is reduced […]

May 2022 Issue [Easy Chair] Broken Links Adjust Share by Hari Kunzru , A young woman is waiting in her New York apartment for her fiancé to arrive and take her to city hall to get married. When he doesn’t turn up, she goes to his address, only to find that he never lived there. She has no way of getting in touch with him, and is reduced to asking people at a nearby newsstand and flower shop whether they have seen him. He has vanished without a trace. The transitive verb “to ghost” is a product of the internet era, but as this scenario from Shirley Jackson’s story “The Daemon Lover” reminds us,

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