We’ve come too far, he’s saying; nothing is going to change back to what it was, or what we thought it was, or what we hoped it could be.
— Greil Marcus, “Real Life Rock Top Ten”
Cameras Are Clocks for Seeing? by Geoff Dyer
For the Love of Pretty Things by Robert R. Johnson
Bohemian Rhapsody by Jason Boog
“Weird Al” Yankovic interviewed by Jonathan Zwickel
Simone Muench micro-interviewed by Daniel Handler
Wallace Shawn interviewed by Duncan Macmillan
Man of the Century by Damion Searls
The Culture of Calamity by Anne Gisleson
Fata Morgana: A new poem
by Yusef Komunyakaa
From “Love, an Index”: A new poem
by Rebecca Lindenberg
One-Page Reviews
Andrew Ervin on Anne Carson,
Victor Brand on Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud,
Kate Zambreno on Danielle Dutton,
Megan Doll on Kira Henehan,
Mark Edmund Doten on Eugene Marten,
and Stephen Burt on Melissa Range
Real Life Rock Top Ten by Greil Marcus
Musin’s and Thinkin’s by Jack Pendarvis
Sedaratives by guest columnist Brendon Small
... and more.