From the Archive
The Yellow Leaf
By Chigozie Obioma“He could tell she knew he was watching, for there was an uneasiness to her stride and to how she gripped her handbag until the taxi arrived.”
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Fiction
Fountain
By Hannah Piette“Anyone can see I am walking in a circle.”
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Poetry
Making of a Poem: Hannah Piette on “Nijinsky Dancing”
By Hannah Piette“Nijinsky’s face layered in makeup became an apt figure for the poem I wanted to write—one in which a ‘civilian face’ could be recognized only through its effacement.”
The Daily
Making of a Poem
Lil Spooky
By Chad Fore“He hadn’t been sure if he was supposed to fight back or just take the beating, if he could dodge the blows or cover his face or what, but it wound up not mattering.”
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Fiction
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Announcing Our Summer Issue
By Emily StokesFeaturing interviews with Harryette Mullen and Yan Lianke, prose by Lucy Ellmann and Chigozie Obioma, poetry by Frederick Seidel, and a cover by Alex Da Corte.
The Daily
A Letter from the Editor
Two Lives
By Daisy Hildyard“Place a man and a woman in a train carriage together and the mind doggedly closes in—but between him and Katharine there had been something else.”
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Fiction
Dreams
By Hadi FalapishiSince last summer, Falapishi has undertaken the nightly practice of waking himself with an alarm in the small hours and recording, in a bedside notebook, and with the lights still off, whatever fragments he can recall of the dream he’d been having.
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Art & Photography
Gloss
By Zain Baweja“gul any flower / gul a candle’s tongue”
