We are pleased to share this review by Rage Hezekiah of Nate Marshall’s Finna (One World, 2020), which appeared in Issue 18.1 as part of a special multigenre review feature on art and activism (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand …
We are pleased to share the entire review feature from Issue 18.1 on art and activism, including the following reviews: Rage Hezekiah on Nate Marshall’s Finna (One World, 2020) Franny Zhang on Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s Heads of the Colored People (37Ink/Atria, 2018) Chip Livingston on Elissa Washuta’s White Magic (Tin House Books, 2021) Emrys Donaldson on …
—Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 2002 Army Basic Training: we march and sing cadence everywhere we go. The chow hall. The motor pool of tanks. The obstacle course. Whether the march lasts two minutes or two hours, we sing, and depending on the drill sergeant, the cadence can involve anything from love of army to homesickness, …
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The Museum of Mothers is free on Fridays.I go with Rheim, who is also not a mother, though she carries around a bag of needlesshe bought years ago from an Iraqi woman everyone called Zahra. Rheim gave namesto each of their lean metallic bodies. We start in the sculpture garden, which the curatorshave named Sorry …
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a golden shovel / after Against Me! All I ever wanted to be—the summerdaydreamed of. Girl in the floral-print dress& endless golden fields. I just wanted youto future me, when so many people wantme past-tensed. I know I can’t convince themI deserve survival. A future togrow up into. I know that they can’t seea girl’s …
stares down head and claw on the tableto make something whole again. Perhaps she’s unnerved by the prospect, deathback to life. But that we crave not just intact but true is the first wish as whenan old mount from the ’30s is taken out of the standard formal pose-of-that-day, itsupright-for-eternity habit of ninety years, its …
1 Teh-chang came home a couple of days after the surgery, wheeled out of the hospital with a cotton bandage wrapped around his head cartoon-style and, even stranger-looking, a white mesh Styrofoam netting gathered into a point on top of that, which made him resemble a delicate fruit packaged for long-distance transportation. He had survived …
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