From the Archive
The Art of Nonfiction No. 15
By Darryl Pinckney“There are moments when you run up against a white wall—there’s a white man, white man, white man, white man—and the story somehow has to be uncovered.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 255
Interviews
Downtown (Altar)
By Agosto Machado“After moving to Greenwich Village in the late fifties, Machado became a fixture of the queer theater, art, and activist movements then emerging in downtown New York.”
From the Archive, Issue 251
Art & Photography
The One Thousand Blobcows Born Each Year
By Morgan Day“I think amorphous globosus is an ideal form: animate yet inanimate, parasitic yet harmless, geological yet doughy, static yet reactive.” On formlessness, Beckett, and Ambera Wellman.
The Daily
Triptych
My Fortune
By Joyelle McSweeney”Here is the rock behind which she rose / from the unpleasance of sea-foam.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 255
Poetry
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Kafka’s Misdiagnosis
By Aaron Schuster“One of the lessons of Kafkian neurosis is that human beings are the architects of their own cages—yet the very ingenuity by which we entrap ourselves points to a freedom that remains untamed.”
The Daily
On Psychoanalysis
Lorelei and Athens
By Zans Brady Krohn“They were not fancy girls, but they did love the absolute best of things, and also appreciated the simple pleasures the earth had to offer: good red dirt, full-fat Coca-Cola.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 255
Fiction
Early Summer
By Nakahara Chuya“it’s about time the stars & stripes / & soda water start making love”
In the Current Issue, Issue 255
Poetry
ART 149: Music for Visual Thinking
By Cauleen SmithThis portfolio renders a selection of the vinyl records Smith plays to begin each session of the undergraduate studio course she teaches at UCLA.
