Bookselling in the End Times…Again
Stephen Sparks
Oct 1 2020
PRINT IS DEAD In his late-fifteenth-century woodcut of a danse macabre, Matthias Huss depicts Death striding into a printer’s shop to remind a bookseller and his colleagues ...
Selected Fields
Apr 1, 2019
A Symposium on the American Landmass
Twenty years before Jamestown was established, a small group of colonists settled Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. When one of the colonists, John ...
Feb 1, 2019
A Symposium on Generations
My first diary had a lock on it. I’d write to my future self, expecting that I’d go back one day and read everything. I never did—until I did, years later, after unearthing ...
Nov 30, 2018
A Symposium on Garbage Art
All ancient cities stand on layers of rubble, waste, and human remains. Rome is no exception. In Sister Stop Breathing, a collection of short fictions centered mostly on the ...
Oct 1, 2018
A Symposium on the Modern Family
“Why are we like this?” the daughter screams several minutes into Will Eno’s play The Open House. The question sits between a pair of tense silences, the sort that are ...
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Doomstead Days at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery
Marie Scarles
Oct 1 2020
One Sunday in February 2019, during my first winter in Philadelphia, an unusual fog descended over my neighborhood. The day was mild, and a haze hung over the buildings; it ...
Guest Critic: Roberto Lovato
Roberto Lovato
Oct 1 2020
Our intersecting crises—COVID-19, the struggle for racial justice sparked by the murder of George Floyd, mass unemployment, and, most important, the crisis of political ...
Dismantle the Platform
Kiley Bense
Jun 1 2020
The video begins quietly, with a single quotation floating on a black background: “While my company and the museum have distinct missions,” it reads, “both are important ...
Art by Women About Women Making Art About Women
Melissa Febos
Jun 1 2020
T he first lesbian movie I loved was Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson’s sumptuous 1994 film starring a young Kate Winslet as a dangerously charismatic schoolgirl who ...
Guest Critic: David L. Ulin
David L. Ulin
Jun 1 2020
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Anne Frank. No, that’s not true, exactly: I always think a lot about Anne Frank. In this moment, though, with the world in the midst of ...
Doubled Knowledge
Emily Beyda
Apr 1 2020
I often think of translation as a kind of empathy that unfolds in the space between author, translator, and reader. Successfully bringing a piece of writing from one language ...
I Celebrate Myself, and Erase Myself
Sarah Rose Sharp
Apr 1 2020
In its broadest sense, a temple is a place devoted to a specific and elevated purpose, one not necessarily limited to the spiritual. Maybe it’s fair to say that what I’ve ...
Microreviews: April/May 2020
Ismail Muhammad
Apr 1 2020
I’ve had to learn how to grieve in the last year. These are some of the things that I’ve glommed onto that have made me feel less lonely in that work. Ghosteen Nick Cave and ...
