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 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 Six

Editor’s Note

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)

Issue Five

Editor’s Note

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” (fiction)

Garielle Lutz — “Backwardness” (fiction)

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

Issue Four

Editor’s Note

Anna DeForest — “Family Meeting” (story)

Zack Finch — “The History of a Jump” (essay)

William H. Gass — Excerpt from Baroque Prose 

Emily Hall — Excerpt from the novel The Longcut

John Haskell — “Five Miles High” (essay)

 Grant Maierhofer — Excerpt from Sentence-Making  “Notes on the Act of Writing”

Issue Three

Editor’s Note

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)


Issue Two

Editor’s Note

Steve Barbaro — “Celestial Camo” (fiction)

Mauro Javier Cárdenas — “(Not) Roberto Bolaño” (fiction)

Patrick Farmer — A Tinnital Imagination (essay)

Jacqueline Feldman — “Milena” (fiction)

Vi Khi Nao — Three Stories: “64 Chromosomes,” “Minky Mupha,” and “Deleted Scenes from Fish In Exile

Lance Olsen — “Absolute Away” (fiction)

Rebecca Ariel Porte — A Late Quartet (for Henry James) (essay)

Matthew Spencer — High on the Chalk (Kleist, Goethe, and Friedrich) (essay)

J.M. Tyree — Dunwich Beach, 2019 (Mark Fisher’s Agon with W. G. Sebald) (essay)

Issue One

Editor’s Note

Jen Craig — “Body of Work" (fiction)

Genese Grill — On the Way to the Fen, Ethical and Aesthetic Quandaries Arise (essay)

Tomoé Hill — Murmurations (essay)

Garielle Lutz — Two Stories: “I Must Have Always Felt Elevated” and “She Who Is Still Within Reach”

Joseph McElroy — “The Stranger” (fiction)

Alexander Theroux — “The Copernicus Affair” (fiction)