The Field: The Trouble with Dreams
Lovia Gyarkye
Oct 1 2019
At the United States Embassy in Jamaica, a woman waits for her visa interview. It is hot. She is nervous. When she is finally called upon, she tells a compelling story that ...
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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Guest Critic: Gabriela Garcia
Gabriela Garcia
Oct 1 2019
The term transgressive fiction emerged in a 1993 Los Angeles Times article in which critic Michael Silverblatt described texts that cross moral and sexual boundaries with ...
The Field: An Immigrant Surveils the State
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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I spot the T-shirt one sunny day at a thrift store in San Francisco, pluck it from the rack, and hold it up to examine it. It’s a green, discolored military shirt. It is so ...
The Field: The Everyday Fear
Jennifer Wilson
Oct 1 2019
The tundra—a treeless plain with an underlayer of permafrost—is most commonly found, like many very cold things, in Russia. The threat of straying too far from the city and ...
The Field: In the Land of Open Graves
Claire Mullen
Oct 1 2019
T he border of southern Arizona and Mexico is more desolate than one might think. South of the highway between Tucson and Yuma lies the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, ...
Microreviews: October/November 2019
Scott Nanos
Oct 1 2019
If we normally think of the border between the United States and the Philippines as one between a colonial benefactor and a ward that is always one step behind, these reviews ...
The Field: The 2019 Music Issue
Various
Aug 1 2019
On the evening of Thursday, January 13, 1972, as the audience assembled in the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, the Reverend James Cleveland ...
Symposium: Sincere Thieves
Various
Jun 1 2019
Isabella Hammad’s wonderful debut novel, The Parisian, opens in 1914, as World War I begins and the Ottoman Empire ends. Midhat Kamal is the contemplative son of a well-to-do ...
A Symposium on the American Landmass
Various
Apr 1 2019
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 ...
