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
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
(Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015) Parneshia Jones’s poetry collection Vessel celebrates life with story and with lyric. Jones grew up an African-American girl in Chicago, and these reflective poems carve out for the reader a portrait of a life and … Continued
the whole room fills up with iced tea, something gives: the sun peels from your window, a sugared lemon, whole, flaming, hanging there. You tell them they must: puncture your chest with a straw to suck all the empty out, … Continued
(New York, NY: Riverhead, 2014) Friendswood, the lyrical new novel by National Book Award Finalist René Steinke, is the kind of 300-plus-page book that devours you in a couple of afternoons. The prose is nimble but sure-footed, the narrative suspenseful, … Continued
1. A cheap leather coat K’s father lent me when we were visiting and the weather turned cold. It had belonged to his brother, a cop, but had never been worn because the brother, as K’s father explained, died within … Continued
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.
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 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.