Volume 47, Issue 2 — Fall 2017

In this issue: reporting from war zones, orange spray paint gets ugly, alopecia, visualizing Walter Benjamin’s Arcades, breakfast and dinner in verse, Japan during the 2011 tsunami, a monkey magician, and a man runs a 10k in Converse.

Poetry

Anna JacksonUnspoken, at Breakfast
Marcus WickerSilencer on the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. after Sassing an Officer Who Assumed He’d Unlawfully Entered His Own Home
Samuel AmadonHot Talk
Analicia SoteloMy Mother as the Voice of Kahlo
Wayne MillerMay 5, 2014
Anders Carlson-WeeThe Mark
Rusty Morrisonrinsing out your ziplocks chewing dirt
Mike Soto[Untitled]
Michael BazzettThe Fact The Plot
Corey Van LandinghamOn a Morning When Our Weather Is Sixty Degrees Different Elegy for the Sext
Max RitvoDinner in Los Angeles, Raining in July
Steven KleinmanMy Mother’s Many Deaths Taking a Stone
Malachi BlackMother of Pearl Old Photographs

Fiction

T.C. Boyle | The Designee
Sean HigginsThe Blaze-Orange Freak Tag
Tim Taranto260 Moore
Ardashir VakilLaptop
Todd James PierceThe Cameraman’s Son
Rachel LyonThe Monkey Magician
Ben BushIntroverts
Elizabeth BowenMysterious Kôr

Essays

Jennifer Alise DrewPersonal Matters
Jenny BoullyCindy Dodge, Aerialist, Fall
Sophie UntermanBashert
M.W. LarsonThe Hills Above, the Sea Below

Criticism

Margot LiveseyThe Flight of the Hawk: An Introduction to Elizabeth Bowen’s “Mysterious Kôr”

Interview

Christopher MerrillFrom the Workshop to War: An Interview with Janine di Giovanni

Review

Thom DonovanMelissa Buzzeo’s The Devastation

Artwork

Frances CannonThe Collector: An Illustrated Archive of Objects, Nouns, and Books Collected from the Text of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades
Alexander O. Smith |Traveler’s Tales

Note: Due to a formatting error in our Spring 2017 issue, we are reprinting Corey Van Landingham’s poems from that issue, with our apologies.