Issue 6: Summer 2022

From the Editor

“(N)evermore,” “We Learn the Names of Things,” “Brief As We Are”

by Gregory Mahrer

Eye of the Beholder

“How Can I Make Them Hear Me?”

by Cooper Gillespie

Clay Diary: Part 5

by Abigail Thomas

“English as a Second Languish”

by John Olivares Espinoza

Taming Dragons: a Conversation with Nicole Rudick

by Sam Stephenson

Clay Diary: Part 4

by Abigail Thomas

Essays/Nonfiction

“Macrodosed”

by Roberto Lovato

Clay Diary: Part 3

by Abigail Thomas

“After David”

by Catherine Texier

Introducing the Southern California Review Archives

by Aaron Winslow

Clay Diary: Part 2

by Abigail Thomas

Essays/Nonfiction

“Walking in Zigzags”

by Diane Mehta

“Hyperbolic Geometry,” “Lavender Eucalyptus Boyfriend,” “Jean Seberg,” “Marion Cotillard”

by Eileen G’Sell

Clay Diary: Part 1

by Abigail Thomas

Essays/Nonfiction

“You’re Breaking My Heart”

by Chrys Tobey

“Calistoga”

by Edan Lepucki

“Slow Homecoming”

by Sven Birkerts

Only We Are Here

by Clary Ahn

“Palermo,” “In Praise of Pottery”

by M. Cottonwood

“The Art of Bullfighting”

by Jose Hernandez Diaz

“[White Noise],” “Sonnet,” “The Myth of Space Travel”

by Mag Gabbert

“The Joneses”

by Stephen Graham Jones

“Los Angeles, Summer 2020,” “Thank You”

by Sheila McMullin

“The Ship on the Horizon”

by Ben Loory

Air/Light is published quarterly in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California.

The Chowdhury Prize in Literature is an annual international mid-career prize for writers.