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2013

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Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviews

Fiction

A Nairobi Story of Comings and Goings
by A. Igoni Barrett
At Sea
by Amy Benson
The Stockholm Car
by Stig Dagerman
Translated from the Swedish by Steven Hartman
We’ll Finish When We’re Done
by David Ebenbach
Orders of Protection
by Jenn Hollmeyer
The Fish
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel
from Firefly
by Severo Sarduy
Translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried

Essays

Casual Business Attire
by Nin Andrews
The Dream of the Pussy
by Nin Andrews
The Controversy Revisited: A Response to van Trotta’s Hannah Arendt
by Robert Boyers
Art Lies Because It Is Social
by Drew Calvert
When It Was New: Miles Davis’s “So What”
by Aaron Gilbreath
A Tribute to Chinua Achebe
by Chinelo Okparanta

Poetry

Elegy for a Mother, Still Living
by Elana Bell
What Else God Wanted
by Elana Bell
“My wall with eyes of stones . . .”
by Elana Bell
Category Sex, or An Essay on the Label Machine
by Ken Chen
Intimate Democracy Is Seeing the Back of Your Head
by Ken Chen
“Outside the window falls the rain.”
by Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
“Why does that particular . . .”
by Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Fox
by Johan Huybrechts
Ode to the Parrot
by Meg Kearney
Partridge: Paradise Lost
by Meg Kearney
Catafalque
by Dore Kiesselbach
How to Sort It
by Sydney Lea
Brass Knuckles
by Hailey Leithauser
Crowbar
by Hailey Leithauser
I. L. Salomon, poet & translator.
by Gerard Malanga
Nusch Eluard, 1906–1946.
by Gerard Malanga
When We Found the Rete
by Edward Mayes
Miltown
by Jill McDonough
Look at the skate park sideways
by Mark Neely
Solomon’s Wisdom Didn’t Keep
by Mark Neely
Meeting You After Chernobyl
by Paul Nemser
Nymphs of Kezar Lake
by Joyce Peseroff
A Little Death in the World
by Beth Woodcome Platow
The New Life
by Beth Woodcome Platow
Coda: Journey
by Doug Ramspeck
Meditation and Form
by Doug Ramspeck
The Rule of Chambers
by Claire Sylvester Smith

Conversations

Half Falling, Half in Flight: A Conversation with Mark Neely
by Eric Higgins
Living on That Land: A Conversation with Elana Bell
by Eric Higgins
Photographs of Thinking: A Conversation with Ken Chen
by Eric Higgins

Reviews

Saving Our Dogs to Save Ourselves
by David Holub
The Pakistani Novel of Class Comes of Age
by Anis Shivani
“The Remains of Holiness”: On Borowicz’s The Bees Are Waiting
by Jason Tandon
Hark, Dumbass: Humor in Contemporary American Poetry
by Eric Weinstein
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