Topping from the Bottom Michelle Chan Schmidt The gulf between the external gaze and self-perception.
Lactose Intolerance Lisa Borst “There used to be more time to make a getaway. Pretty soon there’s no place to run to anymore.”
Monsters and Melancholics Andrea Penman-Lomeli To keep loss alive is to keep the productive imagination alive.
Topping from the Bottom Michelle Chan Schmidt The gulf between the external gaze and self-perception.
Lactose Intolerance Lisa Borst “There used to be more time to make a getaway. Pretty soon there’s no place to run to anymore.”
Monsters and Melancholics Andrea Penman-Lomeli To keep loss alive is to keep the productive imagination alive.
The Fruits of Rank Samuel Huneke The unholy alliance between well-heeled gay men and the conservative movement.
Reject Transgender Liberalism Jules Gill-Peterson The trans movement must change legal and political course.
Hope Sinks Samuel Huneke The state ramps up its campaign of repression against queer and trans people.
The Fruits of Rank Samuel Huneke The unholy alliance between well-heeled gay men and the conservative movement.
Reject Transgender Liberalism Jules Gill-Peterson The trans movement must change legal and political course.
Hope Sinks Samuel Huneke The state ramps up its campaign of repression against queer and trans people.
Slacking Toward Bethlehem Sammy Loren John Tottenham’s acerbic debut novel Service hums with an anti-sell out ethos.
Slacking Toward Bethlehem Sammy Loren John Tottenham’s acerbic debut novel Service hums with an anti-sell out ethos.
Advantage: Landlords Bryce Covert In New York, many tenants face eviction hearings without a lawyer on their side.
Advantage: Landlords Bryce Covert In New York, many tenants face eviction hearings without a lawyer on their side.
Tongue Delirium Jenny Xie The world’s fats & wild offerings! Radial exhalations, shadow & silk! All that rushes through your twinned globes, heating the irises. Keep every phoneme fungible, without weight. Swimming field, no anchor. Let your cries move as thunder ...
Top Ten Reasons to Dislike List Poems Ry Cook Feels like a grocery list. Too many nuts can mess with your tummy. Cutting out syntax from a piece is cutting off its ability to breathe in time. Grind Culture. There was once a child who tried to list everything he saw throughout the day, Parsnips, milk (2%), sushi rice, ...
Self vs Rogue Island Sawako Nakayasu Put your hands up, says the island. I look around but it is still just me and the island. I meekly raise my hands a little, slightly higher than before—is that enough? All the way up, you little nitwit. This foul-mouthed island is nothing like the ones in the ads. It’s also ...
Glass Octopus Matthew Zapruder the mesopelagic touches the underside of a boat my father dreamed he built I turned his fortune into a sturdy vessel that churned through countless waves to the place where everything is equidistant then in the chamber of a lowered diving bell through thick glass suddenly ...
Tongue Delirium Jenny Xie The world’s fats & wild offerings! Radial exhalations, shadow & silk! All that rushes through your twinned globes, heating the irises. Keep every phoneme fungible, without weight. Swimming field, no anchor. Let your cries move as thunder ...
Top Ten Reasons to Dislike List Poems Ry Cook Feels like a grocery list. Too many nuts can mess with your tummy. Cutting out syntax from a piece is cutting off its ability to breathe in time. Grind Culture. There was once a child who tried to list everything he saw throughout the day, Parsnips, milk (2%), sushi rice, ...
Self vs Rogue Island Sawako Nakayasu Put your hands up, says the island. I look around but it is still just me and the island. I meekly raise my hands a little, slightly higher than before—is that enough? All the way up, you little nitwit. This foul-mouthed island is nothing like the ones in the ads. It’s also ...
Glass Octopus Matthew Zapruder the mesopelagic touches the underside of a boat my father dreamed he built I turned his fortune into a sturdy vessel that churned through countless waves to the place where everything is equidistant then in the chamber of a lowered diving bell through thick glass suddenly ...
For Betar or Worse Hannah Gais There are distressingly few paths to challenging Canary Mission and Betar.
For Betar or Worse Hannah Gais There are distressingly few paths to challenging Canary Mission and Betar.
Fatigue Performance Noah Falck Music held the middle part of summer as she jump-roped the rain out of the sky. We watched from the car, windows all the way down, the clouds serious, maybe even a bit severe. The air may be a risk for some people, the radio repeated. The air ...
From Opera Fever Chelsey Minnis Darling, it was a single, unsmashed fish tank.. Well, it had the same effect as a lip scar.. Anyway, his voice was like four brandies in the tropics I was on my best behavior that autumn… A poem was pawing at the door..
Fatigue Performance Noah Falck Music held the middle part of summer as she jump-roped the rain out of the sky. We watched from the car, windows all the way down, the clouds serious, maybe even a bit severe. The air may be a risk for some people, the radio repeated. The air ...
From Opera Fever Chelsey Minnis Darling, it was a single, unsmashed fish tank.. Well, it had the same effect as a lip scar.. Anyway, his voice was like four brandies in the tropics I was on my best behavior that autumn… A poem was pawing at the door..
Female Small Business Owner Grace Byron There’s joy in seeking out a certain pleasure and finding that it does indeed taste just like you imagined it would.
No, Maybe Jason Fulford I think of a grudge as a stubborn obstacle, a thorn, an ugly word. I’ve talked to photographers about this before, in a book I edited called Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph.
Female Small Business Owner Grace Byron There’s joy in seeking out a certain pleasure and finding that it does indeed taste just like you imagined it would.
No, Maybe Jason Fulford I think of a grudge as a stubborn obstacle, a thorn, an ugly word. I’ve talked to photographers about this before, in a book I edited called Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph.
The Space Between Abdelrahman ElGendy Sarah Aziza grapples with her Palestinian family’s history of exile.
The Space Between Abdelrahman ElGendy Sarah Aziza grapples with her Palestinian family’s history of exile.
DeepSeeking the Truth JS Tan DeepSeek offers a rare window into the complexity of innovation in China.
DeepSeeking the Truth JS Tan DeepSeek offers a rare window into the complexity of innovation in China.
What Do I Have in Common with Jews? Avi Ackermann Judaism brings inherited obligation, not hereditary talent.
The Annexation of the West Bank Is Complete Jasper Nathaniel October 7 demolished the last restraints on Israel’s annexation of the West Bank.
Schumer’s Warning David Klion Self-congratulation and willful ignorance in Chuck Schumer’s book on antisemitism.
What Do I Have in Common with Jews? Avi Ackermann Judaism brings inherited obligation, not hereditary talent.
The Annexation of the West Bank Is Complete Jasper Nathaniel October 7 demolished the last restraints on Israel’s annexation of the West Bank.
Schumer’s Warning David Klion Self-congratulation and willful ignorance in Chuck Schumer’s book on antisemitism.
Heteropessimism of the Intellect Arielle Isack On Sophie Kemp’s biblical saga of romantic disappointment.
Perfecting the Art of Pedantry Bailey Trela Augusto Monterroso’s Rube Goldberg machine of self-critique.
Heteropessimism of the Intellect Arielle Isack On Sophie Kemp’s biblical saga of romantic disappointment.
Perfecting the Art of Pedantry Bailey Trela Augusto Monterroso’s Rube Goldberg machine of self-critique.
Poem Abraham Adams Light burns the books of light. They hang a black wreath on the page, a door snowed shut. Stars spaced like cries at night, the words of wind in fire’s ink, fill up the lungs’ black skies. Eyes in the words shine back. The voice in letters like light in an ...
Auto Icon Sasha Burshteyn “My body I give to my dear friend Doctor Southwood Smith to be disposed of in a manner hereinafter mentioned . . .” —from the will of Jeremy Bentham, 30th of May, 1832 Sam, I am in a box watching the centuries pass. There’s a round object on the floor between my ...
Mouse Song Yongyu Chen After the dream of a white bed topped with a pool of water, where in that dream I took photos of the white bed & the water, look at the crushed flowers afloat in the water . . . that same night I dreamt I was a child again, I threw a fit, I rolled on the carpet of the ...
Poem Abraham Adams Light burns the books of light. They hang a black wreath on the page, a door snowed shut. Stars spaced like cries at night, the words of wind in fire’s ink, fill up the lungs’ black skies. Eyes in the words shine back. The voice in letters like light in an ...
Auto Icon Sasha Burshteyn “My body I give to my dear friend Doctor Southwood Smith to be disposed of in a manner hereinafter mentioned . . .” —from the will of Jeremy Bentham, 30th of May, 1832 Sam, I am in a box watching the centuries pass. There’s a round object on the floor between my ...
Mouse Song Yongyu Chen After the dream of a white bed topped with a pool of water, where in that dream I took photos of the white bed & the water, look at the crushed flowers afloat in the water . . . that same night I dreamt I was a child again, I threw a fit, I rolled on the carpet of the ...
Uniform Policy Jennifer C. Berkshire Was there ever a time when American schools weren’t bound up with the economy?
Uniform Policy Jennifer C. Berkshire Was there ever a time when American schools weren’t bound up with the economy?
Fortress Beirut Belén Fernández The new U.S. embassy in Lebanon is one hundred thousand tons of diplomacy.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Christy Thornton Greg Grandin on the intertwined fates of the United States and Latin America.
Fortress Beirut Belén Fernández The new U.S. embassy in Lebanon is one hundred thousand tons of diplomacy.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Christy Thornton Greg Grandin on the intertwined fates of the United States and Latin America.
Where the Vile Things Are Jeffrey Arlo Brown The slow-motion pillaging of Ukraine's largest nature reserve.
Where the Vile Things Are Jeffrey Arlo Brown The slow-motion pillaging of Ukraine's largest nature reserve.
Down by the River Wen Stephenson In Nepal, chaotic urbanization, inequality, and an accelerating climate catastrophe converge.
Better Living Through Disaster Caitlin L. Chandler Can we learn to fend not just for ourselves, but for each other?
What’s the Matter with Abundance? Malcolm Harris Don’t piss in a ditch and call it an ocean of lemonade.
Down by the River Wen Stephenson In Nepal, chaotic urbanization, inequality, and an accelerating climate catastrophe converge.
Better Living Through Disaster Caitlin L. Chandler Can we learn to fend not just for ourselves, but for each other?
What’s the Matter with Abundance? Malcolm Harris Don’t piss in a ditch and call it an ocean of lemonade.
Take a Picture It’ll Last Longer Natalie Shapero The old world is dying and the new world is actually also concurrently dying; it’s not a good time. I heard they were able to laser off your tattoo of a ten-point spread; was there any discussion of keeping it and lasering you off instead? I’m just checking. I’m just ...
In which the morning after, a boy’s body had been dismembered Adedayo Agarau To God who made me, the clouds move toward us on that field. It has just rained & the street is flooded again. A boy whose face I do not remember has been dancing in the rain & has now caught a cold. We gather around him as good friends do & because he sneezes, we ...
Loose Exegesis Alina Stefanescu And how the pros sparkled! I thought I’d play this game best when playing my betters. Up close to the net, pivotless, I felt myself most alive when being slaughtered. Everyone saw the shame, how swiftly it came to its descendant. Dark heirs then cookies in a star tin. I ...
Dolphins Stephanie Burt Princes, unready to rule France or anywhere else. No, they are glossy, all-too-human marine mammals, unable to communicate with their captors, till the intrepid children set them free at the climax of the film. Some wish they were whales, able to find their ...
Take a Picture It’ll Last Longer Natalie Shapero The old world is dying and the new world is actually also concurrently dying; it’s not a good time. I heard they were able to laser off your tattoo of a ten-point spread; was there any discussion of keeping it and lasering you off instead? I’m just checking. I’m just ...
In which the morning after, a boy’s body had been dismembered Adedayo Agarau To God who made me, the clouds move toward us on that field. It has just rained & the street is flooded again. A boy whose face I do not remember has been dancing in the rain & has now caught a cold. We gather around him as good friends do & because he sneezes, we ...
Loose Exegesis Alina Stefanescu And how the pros sparkled! I thought I’d play this game best when playing my betters. Up close to the net, pivotless, I felt myself most alive when being slaughtered. Everyone saw the shame, how swiftly it came to its descendant. Dark heirs then cookies in a star tin. I ...
Dolphins Stephanie Burt Princes, unready to rule France or anywhere else. No, they are glossy, all-too-human marine mammals, unable to communicate with their captors, till the intrepid children set them free at the climax of the film. Some wish they were whales, able to find their ...
The Fame Game Andrew Schenker There is no way to fully sanitize our sports stories for the protection of the fans.
The Fame Game Andrew Schenker There is no way to fully sanitize our sports stories for the protection of the fans.
Small Fry Walker Rutter-Bowman Like treated beef, Claire Baglin’s novel is a lean, finely textured thing.
Small Fry Walker Rutter-Bowman Like treated beef, Claire Baglin’s novel is a lean, finely textured thing.
Wrenching the Ranchers Christopher Ketcham Monkeywrenching livestock operations in the American West.
The Mismeasure of Bhutan André Naffis-Sahely Ethnic cleansing in “the happiest country in the world.”
From The Streamers Daniel Baker Let me be clear: As a matter of principle, we offer Bundle deals and console cross-play As if words had ever been so beautiful Lapping at the transpersonal dream The procedurally generated magnolias Encourage pollination by means of Your mind’s interpretive function A rich ...
Wrenching the Ranchers Christopher Ketcham Monkeywrenching livestock operations in the American West.
The Mismeasure of Bhutan André Naffis-Sahely Ethnic cleansing in “the happiest country in the world.”
From The Streamers Daniel Baker Let me be clear: As a matter of principle, we offer Bundle deals and console cross-play As if words had ever been so beautiful Lapping at the transpersonal dream The procedurally generated magnolias Encourage pollination by means of Your mind’s interpretive function A rich ...
Eastern Promises Dylan Levi King Japan is burnt to the filter economically, culturally, and demographically.
A Job Like Any Other Jessica Van Meir Anti-trafficking and the expansion of sex worker and migrant rights go hand in hand.
Memories of Charles Street John Yau My father loved to leave me in a movie theater by myself beginning when I was six seated alone by the aisle He paid the usher a dime to make sure no one kidnapped or molested me Michael Ansara, Jeff Chandler, and Ruth Roman were my cartoon heroes living and ...
Misfire Adam J. Gellings My one good eye continues to have the last laugh; it has no other company; once considered a perceived threat: it has since been removed off the X but from time to time still levels with the clumsy cataracts of the widowed key-maker: my one good eye follows the crow’s feet ...
Eastern Promises Dylan Levi King Japan is burnt to the filter economically, culturally, and demographically.
A Job Like Any Other Jessica Van Meir Anti-trafficking and the expansion of sex worker and migrant rights go hand in hand.
Memories of Charles Street John Yau My father loved to leave me in a movie theater by myself beginning when I was six seated alone by the aisle He paid the usher a dime to make sure no one kidnapped or molested me Michael Ansara, Jeff Chandler, and Ruth Roman were my cartoon heroes living and ...
Misfire Adam J. Gellings My one good eye continues to have the last laugh; it has no other company; once considered a perceived threat: it has since been removed off the X but from time to time still levels with the clumsy cataracts of the widowed key-maker: my one good eye follows the crow’s feet ...
