Issue 9: Winter/Spring 2024
From the Editor: “Mystery Train” by David L. Ulin
ESSAYS/NONFICTION
“Suzanne Somers’s Eggplant Cookbook” by Brian Bouldrey
“Sugar in the Gourd” by Jordan Smith
“Yes, It’s Pretty to Think So” by Rae Wolfe
FICTION
“The Drunken Rabbit” by Jessica Elisheva Emerson
“Gramercy Park Is Closed to the Public” by Toni Ann Johnson
“Life After Kafka” by Magdaléna Platzová, translated by Alex Zucker
POETRY
“Holy Translators,” “Mirror” by Armen Davoudian
“Public Enemy” by Boris Dralyuk
“Miroslav Tichy,” “The Subject Covers Her Face,” “Miroslav Tichy, Untitled,” by Alisha Dietzman
“Horses Impasto,” “Breath Bluff,” and “The Gauntlet,” by Hans F. Wagner
“Notes on the Confessional Style,” “Memorial Day” by Benjamin Bartu
CONVERSATIONS
The Chowdhury Distinguished Speakers Series: Maxine Hong Kingston in Conversation with David L. Ulin
“I Hate the Subject and the Subject Hates Me: An Interview with Susannah Breslin” by Seth Fischer
Magdaléna Platzová in Conversation with Alex Zucker
MULTIMEDIA
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
“Objects in the Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear” by Jared Joseph
DIARY
- Editor’s Introduction: “A Humanitarian Crisis” by David L. Ulin
- “Messages of Concern: An Introduction” by Sara Jacobus
- “Entangled” by Roaa Aladdin Missmeh
- “I Wish I Were Born a Mermaid” by Ola AlAsi
- “Amani and Riham Palestinian Women Take Charge” by Lubna Abdelwahab Abuhashem
- “It’s a Rainy Day in My Normal Life” by Habiba Masoud
- “Provisions, Pots, and Firewood: Feeding Our Neighbors in Gaza” by Mustafa Darweesh Abu Batnain
- “Surviving Beneath Gaza’s Tempest Skies” by Haya Abu Nasser
- “O Lord, Guide Me Through Darkness” by Haya Abu Nasser
- “Pasha Palace: A Beauty of the Old City” by Rawan Jawad Ouda