fiction

The Chemist’s Wife

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

Bamboo Wedding

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

A Love Song of a Dance

Following Sowmya’s dance debut there were angry letters to the editor in The Indian Standard.…

One’s Body is an Animal: A Conversation with Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To,…

Writing Ambition: Irina Reyn on Portraying Unsatisfied Women

Irina Reyn came to Alphabet City to read from The Imperial Wife as part of…

Newsletter #13

    June 2016 “I/we see Aster(ix) as proactive. We are creating a home for…

Fast Close: In Conversation with Jennifer Clement

I met Jennifer Clement for the first time in 2011 while traveling with the Iowa…

Our 2015 Pushcart Nominations

ROGELIA JAMES IS NO PENDEJA by Catalina Bartlett “Dad let me stew in the holding…

Bandolera

She woke up to him texting the American. Frustrated. Anxious. He texted two more times and still no reply, begging in a way that he never would with her.

Skin

Corona, Queens August 1983 It had poured rain and thundered all day just like a…