ISSUES | winter 2012

Featuring reviews of: Yossarian Slept Here by Erica Heller Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff Sempre Susan by Sigrid Nunez In My…    read more

“The problem with modern artists is that they are always going neurotically back and forth between making art and then life, where they collect the experiences. I recognized that in…    read more

Amid the discarded garments, feather boas, parasols and scarves littering the canopy bed, a young Cecil Beaton, just sent down from Cambridge, watched his mother at her dressing table as…    read more

“Gloves”
“Summoning the Shades”
“A Serpent’s Tooth”

“First Night South of the Antarctic Circle”
“Rebuttal”
“Sixty-Eight Degrees South”
“Marguerite Bay”
“Early Courtship Poem”
“Naming the Lifeboat”

“Monuments”
“Rembrandt, Landscape with Obelisk”
“Rodin, The Thinker”
“Jouissance”
“From This Side”
“Portrait of Adam in Landscape with Swine”

On October 19, 1942, nearly eleven months after the United States declared war on Japan, Major General Leslie Groves, the military head of what came to be known as the…    read more

I knew there had been attacks here sometimes, men exposing themselves or robbing people who strayed here. I associated this area and the tramps who I thought lived here, wrongly,…    read more

The school principal is of no use, cannot do or refuses to do anything other than occasionally suspend this “Nate” for a handful of school days, which to a boy…    read more

The rain had come on suddenly, soaking them partway to the skin, this on top of the spattering of mud all three wore on their shins and calves as well…    read more

At the first clear indication that his health was in decline, Jefferies kept a promise to himself and put in his two weeks at the corporate office in Phoenix, showing…    read more

“I couldn’t tell nothing about voices in a fog, for nothing don’t look natural nor sound natural in a fog.” Huck Finn   The older and more experienced one gets,…    read more