Issue 12: Fall 2025

From the Editor: “Five Years” by David L. Ulin

FICTION

“Bulletin” by Mariah Robbins

“Fire Safety” by Emily Rapp Black

“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 I, Part II)

“The 2025 Chowdhury Prize Acceptance Speech” by Claire Dederer

Lock the Door: A Craft Essay 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 (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV)

CONVERSATIONS

“40 Years of Making Trouble: An Interview with the Guerrilla Girls” by Jackie DesForges

“Claire Dederer in Conversation with Maggie Nelson”