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In the Style of Miriam Ackerman
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Lydia did not vacuum the floors or dust the overloaded bookshelves when the men started returning three years later, in small groups of fifty or five hundred at first. She did not stoop below her daughter’s small white desk, now the centerpiece of the family room, to gather up the tiny construction-paper piles that had …
A Conversation Between Cruciverbalists: Michael Griffith Interviews Natan Last About Across the Universe
Fiction Editor Michael Griffith: Natan Last’s Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle, just out from Pantheon, is a brilliant, exuberant, witty book that hopscotches from the initial crossword craze of the 1920s to the present. Along the way Last profiles innovators, traces the puzzle’s complicated evolution, explores the ways …
Body Essay
Guest Literary Nonfiction Editor David Lazar: Allison Field Bell’s “Body Essay” is, indeed, greater than the sum of its parts. This self-forensic, tonally muted work, is a Cartesian revision: We are corporeal, and therefore think about how every inch of us, each discrete part, conjoins body memory along with the memory of our bodies’ pleasures and …
The Inward Pull and Pulsation: On the Erotics of Faylita Hicks’s A Map of My Want and Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle
To accompany our fall 2024 issue (21.2), we have curated a folio on writing about sex (reviews and craft essays) after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include sex, especially the play excerpt by Gloria Oladipo, John Fulton’s story “Emily Leaves Switzerland,” Karolina Letunova’s story “Turn Your Back to the Forest,” and poems …
Middle Age Has Never Been So Sexy: Role Play and Erotic Binaries in All Fours
To accompany our fall 2024 issue (21.2), we have curated a folio on writing about sex (reviews and craft essays) after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include sex, especially the play excerpt by Gloria Oladipo, John Fulton’s story “Emily Leaves Switzerland,” Karolina Letunova’s story “Turn Your Back to the Forest,” and poems …
On the Literary Merits of Funny Sex
To accompany our fall 2024 issue (21.2), we have curated a folio on writing about sex (reviews and craft essays) after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include sex, especially the play excerpt by Gloria Oladipo, John Fulton’s story “Emily Leaves Switzerland,” Karolina Letunova’s story “Turn Your Back to the Forest,” and poems …