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The Saturday Shift

I signed up for junior year abroad and left California with little money on the pretext of studying literature and art, but traveling for...

Nevermore

This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Relationship, Redacted

For as long as I can remember, you reminisced. About life during World War II, about seeing Sinatra with your friends at the Brooklyn...

Swimming in an Asylum

Repton Park, Woodford Green, London. It was Christmastime and The Virgin Active sign was filled-in with tinsel. Glass barriers slid open and a track-suited...

An Interview with Hesse Phillips, Author of Lightborne

On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne Famed poet and playwright Christopher...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Nothing Person, 1970s

Content warning: Descriptions of sexual harassment and sexual assault. “Take your clothes off so I can see your muscles.” He says it almost offhandedly, without...

Clothespins

Pronunciation

One Good Horse

Mount Hunger

Passing Through

Danny never wanted a truck, even when the other kids in his high school made fun of his car, with its thick fabric seats...

Bar Talk

Joy

American Sonnet: Sometimes, Overseas

An unmarried Western woman, working overseas— I often get asked, “Where is your husband?” “How many babies?” After explaining one time too many that I’ve never been...

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading