Asterisms

Preferences

Jamie wakes in a bed that is not her own. It is Mikhail’s bed and…

temporary statement

  I am not poignant. I am losing nuance. I beat you over the head.…

Book Review: “Bear Witness to QTPOC Brilliance”

When the apocalypse arrives as revolution or colony collapse, when electricity fizzles and we’re all…

“I Want Not to Be Spoken To,” A Review of Gabriel Jesiolowski’s As Burning Leaves

It’s hard not to begin with the arresting cover image of Gabriel Jesiolowski’s As Burning…

Lost the Root

  Spirit, grow like flamboyán, a blaze blooming red. Everything red. Black and brown, mancha…

Excerpt: All the Agents & Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands

I arrive to find Keetah standing at her kitchen counter, opening a bag of Maseca.…

The Chemist’s Wife

In the summer that my neighbor’s husband got stopped and sent to Rikers, I rode…

Stranger in the Village, A Visual Essay by Phoebe Boswell

So I landed in Gothenburg. I was met by my hosts and they took me…

Bamboo Wedding

It was a quiet day at the admissions office at NYU. Somwattie and Devika stood…

Review: White-eye Bird – The Vegetarian by Han Kang

‘Shorn of its ceremony the body is, at best, a torn, riven thing – covered…