Underworked intern: Sorry, had to go hit my boss’ vape.
Overheard in Midtown Manhattan:
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Letter From The Editor
Dear friends, Two years ago, we ran what we claimed then to be our first ever Halloween issue, which I can’t believe, mostly because the impending All Hallow’s Eve consumes all without asking, and insists that you attend to it, even if you planned to stay at home and ignore all the festivities. You…
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Emergency! Emergency!
How Princeton demographers laid the groundwork for India’s forced sterilization campaign.
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February 11th
“Eden nearly cries as she is drinking her quad-shot honey iced latte and studying photos from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.”
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Marlie’s burrow
Enter, and I tuck myself into the corner that remembers my outline. This is where your trance takes hold of me. Wedged between my pointer and middle, traces of dreams and feelings flurry into the wind, wisping away along a charcoal staircase warding off reality like sage in a haunted house. Continue, painted by…
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Haircut City
“Since their first afternoon in Mexico City, she had taken to calling the neighborhood Haircut City, privately, suspecting that neither Julian nor Oscar would find it funny, or more humiliatingly, that they might find it very funny indeed.”
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Guardian Angel
“You’ve never spoken to me. All those times that you looked at me, were you really looking at me?”
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Letter From The Editor
Dear friends, Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize last Thursday, a relatively uncontroversial decision. Carson’s work has touched many of our lives, many starting with Autobiography of Red, others with Grief Lessons, her collection of Euripides plays, and certainly some have encountered her picking up the uniquely packaged Float, a striking blue box…
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On Place and Belonging
“Tiny. Empty. Hole. Hole or vacant. Empty/needing. I need to check my emails.”