FLIGHT

Read on your device Buy the ebook TABLE OF CONTENTS The Flight Issue Kate Munning Editor’s Letter We observe flight as crystalline, etched in our minds by the way we fetishize it. Flight brings to mind expansive images of migratory birds … Continued

The Neon Touch

Kelly, whose mother had rolled up the Subaru windows and driven into a lake, took photos of crushed up anti-depressants. Each pill, Kelly said, represented an unanswered question about her mother’s suicide. Sophia, whose parents were corporate lawyers, took photos … Continued

Artificial Intelligence

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Nothing that matters is new or fake. Nothing can’t be controlled with a joystick. Buttons are original thought. Peripherals are unpredictable. Synapses are mythic, like the words we live by. New poetry from Okla Elliott, Charles Simic, Mark Bibbens, Maggie MK Hess. New fiction by Carlos Labbe, James Hannah, John McManus, Jesse Goolsby, Carol LaHines.

The Lives of the Saints

Top ten martyrs. Brain voices: enlightenment or ailment? Beast beatification app. French horn playing birds survive stray cats. Killer horses! Collection agents lose faith. And then there’s Billy, “that suds-bustin, crackpot, stinks-like-a-righteous-oath, pig-eyed god.” No verifiable miracles here, but we’ll eat your kisses. New work from: Sherman Alexie, Eric Barnes, Danielle Blau, D. Foy, Derek Henderson, Chistian Nagle, Molly Reid, Adam Wilson.

Manifest Destiny

MANIFEST DESTINY Politics, culture, self-invention, the determined combination of will and imagination, brute force, gale force, war, the inevitable, hybridity, plowing forward, skipping past, ideology, territory, visionary, guns, saints, a twitching heart. Featuring work by Kelly Cherry, R. A. Allen, Michiah Bay Gault, R. G. Evans, Nina Berberova, Erica MacAlpine.