The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

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“Table for Two” is a collection of six stories and a novella set in two very different cultural capitals. By Hamilton Cain Hamilton Cain is a book critic and the author of “This Boy’s Faith: Notes ...

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