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Literature

Fifteen Years

July 23, 2020 • by Ariel Vidal

You haven’t tried.To know me.Only try to control me.You think it’s my job to cater to you? I was seven,Or around that age,When you two finally separated.I was relieved. You never deserved her.And she may not be thereAs much as I need her,But even then you haven’t earned her love.So why would ...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part VIII

On the sharp edge of fragility

July 21, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

Follow your own feet uphill, fix / your gaze on the undeliverable missives / flying back to their return address...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part VII

On the elements of crisis: oxygen, hydrogen, chlorine

July 14, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

The tigers sing: We never ate your parents. So what if we ate your parents. They were no angels and neither are you....

Literature

The Big Cats, Part VI

On the rough, indifferent tongue of the truth

July 7, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

Come and see the tigers lick us with their rough / indifferent tongues as our wax darkens...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part V

On crime and punishment and missing out on parties

June 30, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

The virus is born and already dead, a script / for another life’s dis-ease. ...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part IV

On Joe Exotic and Bill Gates

June 23, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

Tiger catches / Joe Exotic by the toe. He won’t run, / let him go. My mother said Bill Gates / is going to pick the very last one....

Literature

The Goths & Other Stories

June 17, 2020 • by Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart

I In the winter of 476 A.D. the Ostrogoths, hungry and exhausted from wandering for months through barren hills along the confines of the Byzantine Empire, wrote to Emperor Zeno in Constantinople requesting permission to enter the walled city of Epidaurum, and just kinda crash and charge their phones. “My ...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part III

On fever dreams and wounds to lick

June 16, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

A wounded animal conceals itself to hide from death and to seek it....

Literature

The Big Cats, Part II

On sleeping dangers, grocery runs, and hiding out in the wilderness

June 9, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

Last night I dreamed there was a tiger sleeping / in the bosom of the family, the same light canary / color as the dog. ...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part I

On tigers, Richard Brautigan, and six feet of distance

June 2, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

In the Bronx the tigers have come down / with a dry cough and febrile dreams...

Democracy

Troilus and Cressida and a Diseased Body Politic

Reading Shakespeare in a time of plague

May 28, 2020 • by Emily Pitts Donahoe

We are perennially curious about what Shakespeare can teach us about our own world, hoping to find instruction and solace in his plays, poems, and exemplary turns of phrase. Recently, this curiosity has produced a score of tweets and articles speculating about Shakespeare’s productivity during periods when the plague ravaged London, ...

Troilus and Cressida and a Diseased Body Politic

Interviews

Hope, Revolution, and Survival

An interview with Morgan Parker

May 11, 2020 • by Masha Shollar and Morgan Parker

Masha Shollar [MS]: You’ve said that you trick yourself into writing by making yourself laugh. This collection is so intense and not one I would automatically think of as humorous, even though poems like “Matt” and “Brooklyn” for instance are, in ways, very funny. But they still had these dark ...