How can language be used to express the limits of language? In Laura Grothaus’s “Also Milk,” Luca reveals to the speaker that her mother’s losing language. “She calls everything milk. / Ketchup is milk. Water is milk.”
Editorial Assistant Jason Namey: I always love when authors use language in unexpected ways, but I especially love when authors—such as Adam Latham, in his story “The Goddamn Sorcerer of Love” from issue 16.1 (read an excerpt here)—do this right from the opening sentence.
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Something monumental has shifted in the speaker by the poem’s end, but the images and meaning remain ephemeral: “the cloth will make/for good nesting material.”
In her review of Elizabeth McCracken’s Thunderstruck & Other Stories (Dial, 2014) in issue 16.1, Sherrie Flick introduces us to “Unpack Your Adjectives” by Schoolhouse Rock! Here, as accompaniment to the review, is said adjective-loving song: And for those not already familiar with it, here’s its well-known colleague, “Conjunction Junction,” which Flick also mentions: While …
As the school year winds down and we get ready to welcome our summer assistant editors, we also say goodbye to Caitlin Doyle and Molly Reid, who have been CR editors for two years now.
My brother is seven and I am five. This is the unbridgeable expanse between us. It will always be that way. Another expanse between us, back then: he is a boy and I am a girl. He knows things that I don’t know. Like about the dicks on the urns.
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