Issue 12: Fall 2025
From the Editor: “Five Years” by David L. Ulin
FICTION
“Fire Safety” by Emily Rapp
“Nothing’s Broken,” “So High,” and “Hearing Windows” by Kim Chinquee
ESSAYS/NONFICTION
“An Ode to Fall(ing)” by Rabha Ashry
“Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)” by Claude Cahun, Part 1
“The 2025 Chowdhury Prize Acceptance Speech” by Claire Dederer
POETRY
“Sarah Palmer at the Elk’s Point #9,” “‘LA’s Famously Bizarre Apartments Could Never Be Built Today’” by Lynn Melnick
“And How Could I Live On (for Betty Shabazz)” by Nikki Giovanni
PORTFOLIO
“The Lost Film” by Cecil Castellucci (Art by Thit Bitsch)
DIARY
“Erase Genesis” by Rebecca Gayle Howell
CONVERSATIONS
“Interview with a Guerrilla Girl: 40 Years of Art and Activism” by Jackie DesForges
“Claire Dederer in Conversation with Maggie Nelson”