Featured Fiction: Sherrie Flick
The evening felt like an audition for a throwback movie with Trudy poorly reciting lines that she had once known by heart.
Mad Hatters, Cheshire Cats, and Hallucinations
Why do large language models fabricate information?
Asymmetrical Lines
I started thinking about asymmetrical lines in poetry around the same time I started thinking about having a child.
Against the Stupor of Privilege: "We Must March, My Darlings"
Power, my friend of Oksana Zabuzhko once noted, "is the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful."
Selected Works from Young Writers for Democratic Action
A selection of prose and poetry from Bella Rotker, Chair of the Young Writers for Democratic Action.
Featured Fiction: Tommy Dean
At the church doors we dropped his arms, and the preacher lumbered through the sanctuary to the pulpit where he collapsed onto his back, his chest heaving, eyes searching.
Featured Poets: Jennifer Jean in Correspondence with Dr. Hanaa Ahmed
Featured poetry co-created in conversation between Dr. Hanaa Ahmed and Jennifer Jean.
Hansel & Gretel: Between Effort & Grace
Let’s run Hansel and Gretel through this Sisyphean prism. The story begins in a house where all grace has disappeared.
A Manifesto for the Smiley Face Shoggoth
Most of us are comfortable with the current lifeforms on the planet. Are we delusional zombies?
Silly Games to Save the World: Excerpts
Dot, Spot, To and Fro, Round, and Up, and Out You Go!
The Many Stories of Tarshia Green
I asked Tarshia Green how I should begin a story about her. She said, “Start with how my momma told me: ‘Don’t ever be a scab.’”
“People Do Not Give Each Other Shelter”: On Halldor Laxness’s Independent People
Independent People can be read as a meditation on what it means to have dependents and what it is one owes them.
