Issue 48: Winter 2020 Has Arrived!

Dear Readers, I'm happy to announce on this crisp Monday morning that Issue 48: Winter 2020 has finally arrive! So grab a cup, settle in, and dive into our latest offering of excellent fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews. This issue’s fiction features “Xibalba” by André Babyn, “Bits” by Kirk Mason, “Rickshaw has phone sex & also the flamingos” by kari teicher, and “Everything Must Go” by Alyson Mosquera Dutemple. In poetry, check out two poems from Junebat by John Elizabeth Stintzi, “I wait in an airport line with Dionne Brand” by Manahil Bandukwala, “Translation Book for a Child Between Countries” by Ojo Taiye, “Grand Habitat Daybook” by Terese Mason Pierre, “Haiku by my mother I found among the marginalia in her checkbook after she drank herself to death” by Benjamin Aleshire, “The Manic Pixie Dream Entrance” by Victoria Mbabazi, “Workshopping My Personal Brands Under Late-Stage Capitalism” by Meghan Bell, and “Guglielmo” by A. R. Zarif. In this season’s essays, read Shoilee Khan’s story about donating her kidney to her brother in “The Kidney is Exhibit A” and Kate Black’s examination of aquariums and anxiety in “Captive.” In this issue’s interview section, Interviews Editor CHO MIN talks about AODA and accessibility with Christine Karcza, Kim Fullerton, and Sean Lee in“Going Beyond the AODA: Accessibility in Arts & Culture” (an accessible download link is available at the top of this interview). Finally, this issue’s reviews section features a review of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House by Philip Sayers, Jess Taylor’s Just Pervs by Sanchari Sur, and Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal by Kasia van Schaik. And with that we present Issue 48. We hope you enjoy our very latest. All the best, The Editors