Issue 46: Summer 2019 Has Arrived!

Dear Readers, The sun is setting earlier and the nights are getting cooler, but summer isn't done yet, especially now that Issue 46: Summer 2019 has finally arrived! This issue’s fiction features “Why did Rhiannon leave her successful musician boyfriend Stuart, change her name to Beth, and move to a town near where she grew up, only to arrive on the doorstep of Allan, her former best friend who was beginning to develop a crush on her when she originally left the area, aged thirteen?” by Nick Lord Lancaster, “Sex With Andre” by Daniel Felsenthal, and “The Cannibal History” by Ethan Cade Varnado. In poetry, check out “Vietnamese Supernaturalism Notes: Divine Mother” and “Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones” by Hoa Nguyen, “Braid” by Brandi Bird, “To a chronically pained body” by Dominik Parisien, “KYLE.” by Lyrik Courtney, “What Is A Human Possibility?” by Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Nostalgia Man Rises” by Jacob McArthur Mooney, “Fifteen Ways of Saying Hunger” by Sneha Subramanian Kanta, “The species is named” by Kabel Mishka Ligot, “Aposematism” by Helen Robertson, “Her self-talk after death by natural causes” by Alyda Faber, and “Happy for a time” by Molly Cross-Blanchard, In this season’s essay section, Susan Cahill talks about what childhood taught her about writing in “Dash the imagination against something hard,” and Megan Cole discusses the difference between silence and quiet in “A man of few words.” In the first interview of this issue Nehal El-Hadi interviews Ho Che Anderson and the pair discuss comics, films, books, and Anderson’s upcoming feature film Le Corbeau. Next, read Kate Finegan’s interview with Téa Mutonji, where they discuss women, motherhood, the mundane, and Mutonji’s debut collection of linked short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty. In our third and final interview for this issue, Jonathan Farmer and Stephanie Burt discuss their latest thinking on poetry, criticism, audiences, if poems and humans can be friends or not, and much more. Finally, this issue’s reviews section features a review of Ali Blythe’s Hymnswitch by Stewart Cole, a review of Victoria Hetherington’s Mooncalves by Geoffrey Morrison, and a review of Emmanuel Bove’s My Friends and João Reis’s The Translator’s Bride by Matthew D. Rodrigues. And so, we hope you find a sunny patch somewhere to sit back, relax, and enjoy the latest The Puritan has to offer. All the best, The Editors