THAT TOWN
“My brother saw Anacostia one day when he was nine,” Edward P. Jones wrote in the title story of his 2006 collection,
Abortionist
IN 2007, AFTER Paul Ross Evans pleaded guilty to leaving a bomb outside of a women’s health clinic in Austin, he assured the judge: He never meant for anyone to get hurt. “Except,” he clarified, “for the abortionists.” For almost two centuries, the m
