Flight Risk
Ruby Brunton
Jan 31 2020
Today’s social media landscape lets artists promote and market their work in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago, but it also enables a cycle of rapid-fire ...
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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An Act of Poetry
Sarah Neilson
Jan 31 2020
T he cover image of Jake Skeets’s debut poetry collection, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, has a poetry of its own. An indigenous Diné man stands against a stark ...
Microreviews: February/March 2020
Zack Graham
Jan 31 2020
Parasite Bong Joon-ho There are three castes of people in our late-capitalist world: the ultra-rich, those who work for them, and everyone else. If we’re fortunate, we’re like ...
Guest Critic: Trisha Low
Trisha Low
Jan 31 2020
It’s hard to know when you’ll catch nostalgia, like you would a virus or a disease. An Angelfire page, littered with broken image boxes. Floral print wrapped around a chipped ...
That Same King Feeling
Sarah Burke
Jan 31 2020
When people on the mainland ask me where I’m from and I say “Hawai’i”—pronounced with a sharp ‘okina, the way it’s supposed to be pronounced, not the way mainlanders do, ...
Unfortunately, I Like It Too
Sharon Marcus
Dec 2 2019
Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, published in 2017, has been one of the great literary success stories of the Brexit and Trump eras, especially among readers who, ...
Guest Critic: Oscar Villalon
Oscar Villalon
Dec 2 2019
How do you know what you think you know? This question—with that emphasis—is, I think, at the heart of criticism. Taking as a given the journalistic or scholarly aspects of ...
Microreviews: December 2019/January 2020
Yashwina Canter
Dec 2 2019
At the moment, I’m interested in art that takes gentleness seriously as a subject without diminishing the bewildering amount of anxiety and hurt that comes with existing in ...
Narrative Trig
Rachel Z. Arndt
Dec 2 2019
The word machine stands out each time it appears in Masande Ntshanga’s latest novel, Triangulum, suggesting the predestination that’s so inherent in novels—they’ve already ...
