Stories About You
At 12, you read The Catcher in the Rye and it dawned on you that you were in love with Holden Caulfield.
Issue 56: Winter 2022
Fiction
And For My Next Trick, I’ll Disappear
I was sitting with Luca and Céline and willing my vodka soda to explode and cut me to pieces.
Tree of Sorrow
I was five years old when I discovered that my mother’s name wasn’t “Ma.”
Poetry
A Sichuan Diaspora Daughter’s Kitchen
You must teach yourself how to carry loan words,/ tiny seeds gift-wrapped like hand-me-down
Essays
For ‘Gender’, See ‘Turtles’: Experiments in Empathetic Biology
We hatchlings know how to escape the dark without a metaphor. In sand we trust the signs of the world.
Mango Graves
She was always waving a butcher knife. She was always calling my aunt a witch.
Interviews
A Conversation Between Liz Howard and Matthew James Weigel
In early 2022, Liz Howard and Matthew James Weigel reflected on creation, emergence, community, acts of resistance, artistic influences, and many more ideas through an extended email conversation.
“The Space to Put It Down”: An Interview with Nanci Lee
I met Nanci Lee in March 2018 through our mutual friend and fellow poet Samantha Sternberg.
Reviews
On Every Front: Miriam Toews’ Fight Night
After meeting Miriam Toews, I cried in the parking lot. It was 2015 and my mom had bought us tickets to her reading at the Millennium Library.
Fashion Victim, Style Icon
In his new book Judy Blame’s Obituary: Writings on Fashion and Death, Derek McCormack does what very few in literary and fashion scenes dare do: not take himself too seriously.
