2021
Online Exclusives
Contents
Editor’s Note
A Few Thoughts on Truth and Fiction
Essays
Contact
Lauren Haisley
from After the Fact: Here & Now
by Christopher Merrill and Marvin Bell
Poetry
If It Comes to the Relevant Glyphs in the Papyrus
by Amy Beeder
Tenderloin
Détente (Here Comes the Cold War Again)
The Singing Bone
Lines Written at Dog’s Head Falls, Johnson, Vermont
by K. A. Hays
Malt O Meal, Since 1919
The Interpreter
Postcard from a Virgo
by Fady Joudah
Ben Lerner and the Beauties of Ugly Autofictionalism
by Samuel Liu
Reviews
A One-Way Ticket to the Gallery
“That Full Void”: Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star
by Abby Minor
Poetry and the Grotesque: Daniel Borzutzky’s Bedtime Stories for the End of the World
Intimate Distances: A Review of Armen Davoudian’s Swan Song
by Zoë Pollak
Life Stories and Hi-Story: Weaving Fact with Fiction
Reverb
After “I’m Sorry”: Three Questions with Bailey Gaylin Moore and Donald Quist
by agnimag
And Then . . .? : Books We’ve Read and Loved
by agnimag
Jorge Luis Borges, Conspiracy Theorist
On Eremenko’s “On the Removal of Troops from Afghanistan”
The Paradox of the Novel-in-Stories
We Are All Travelers Now
“Poetry steals me out”: Three Questions with Kennedy Amenya Gisege
by agnimag
Futures: A Portfolio of Work in Translation
Poetry
The Inertia of Anxiety
by Shuri Kido
Translated from the Japanese by Forrest Gander and Tomoyuki Endo