2013
Online Exclusives
Contents
Fiction
A Nairobi Story of Comings and Goings
At Sea
by Amy Benson
We’ll Finish When We’re Done
Orders of Protection
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
Art Lies Because It Is Social
by Drew Calvert
When It Was New: Miles Davis’s “So What”
A Tribute to Chinua Achebe
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.”
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
“Why does that particular . . .”
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Fox
Ode to the Parrot
by Meg Kearney
Partridge: Paradise Lost
by Meg Kearney
Catafalque
How to Sort It
by Sydney Lea
Brass Knuckles
Crowbar
I. L. Salomon, poet & translator.
Nusch Eluard, 1906–1946.
When We Found the Rete
by Edward Mayes
Miltown
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
A Little Death in the World
The New Life
Coda: Journey
Meditation and Form
The Rule of Chambers
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