Issue Seven

Editor’s Note

Curtis Brown — Sailing to Stamboul (August Kleinzahler's Late Style) (essay)

Jean Paul — The Night-Thoughts of Obstetrician Walther Vierneissel on His Lost Fetus-Ideal (fiction—translated by Matthew Spencer)

Koos Prinsloo — And Our Fathers That Begat Us (fiction—translated by Louis Greenwood Lüthi)

Dawn Raffel — The Art of Living in Advance (fiction)

Bennett Sims — The Postcard (fiction)

Alina Stefanescu — Unmailed Letters, Three Rings, the Inheritance, and Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann (essay)

Issue Eight

Editor’s Note

Gabriel Blackwell — Four Essays

Alex Cocotas — An Introduction to “Me Watching You Watching Me” (fiction)

Garielle Lutz — Leveling (From a Notebook) (fiction)

Roderick Moody-Corbett — Which Might Contain Such Liquors As They Often Buried (fiction)

Xiao Yue Shan — I Have Seen My Country in the Most Outside of Places (essay)

Paul Valéry — Excerpt from Monsieur Teste (translated by Charlotte Mandell) (fiction)

Issue Nine

Editor’s Note

Patrick Autréaux — A School of Life (essay—translated by Tobias Ryan)

Devyn Defoe — We Are All Alone Here And We Are Dead (fiction)

Jacqueline Feldman — The New Naturists (fiction)

Jack Houghteling — Excerpt from the novel Sunnyside

Steven Moore — Wild Talents: Pynchon, Gaddis, and Charles Fort (essay)

Hugh Sheehy — Above and Below (fiction)

Christina Tudor-Sideri — Our Daily Drowning (Fragments on Elias Canetti, Krzysztof Zanussi, and the Question of Meaning) (essay)

Tor Ulven — Gold, Winter (fiction—translated by Jordan Barger)

Lars Ahlin — Comes Home and Is Nice (fiction—translated by Tobias Freeman)

Seph Murtagh — Black Diamond: A Retrospective (essay)

Pete Segall — History as Told in a Series of Definitions (fiction)

Mairead Small Staid — Cities & Memory (essay) Excerpt from the book The Traces

Nicholas John Turner — Excerpt from the novel The Soft Castle

Jeff Wood — Revenge of the Real: 0.00°, 0.00° (essay)

Mircea Cărtărescu — “The Fall” Excerpt from the novel Solenoid (translated by Sean Cotter)

Ceridwen Hall — Trade/Craft (essay)

Adam Kosan — North: A Part of Summer (essay)

Matt Leibel — The Patterns (story)

Garielle Lutz — Backwardness (fiction)

Robert Musil — Excerpts from Robert Musil: Literature and Politics (translated by Genese Grill)

Gabriel Blackwell — Excerpt from the novel Doom Town

Alex Cocotas — Excerpt from the novel Liebendigo

Angelo Hernandez-Sias — “Heart Reacts” (fiction)

Sean Hooks — “And There Will Be Conflagration: Grandeur and Empathy in A.S. Byatt’s Possession and the Films of Terrence Malick” (essay)

David Nutt — “Theories for the Eternal Dog” (fiction)

Pamela Ryder — Excerpts from the novel The Lists of Billy the Kid

Christina Tudor-Sideri — “Against the Skin” (essay)