ISSUES | fall 2024

Priory Rd  I said I’d write. I said I wouldn’t lose myself. Oh angel of the barren meadows, strangler of my letters, I thought I left you at the river,…    read more

How to Date a Feminist    Are you a feminist, René?  Uh I dunno, I respect women.  I don’t know what that means. Equal treatment?  Anyway you have great legs. …    read more

Emotional Labor   She was a big girl, the Bernese on the table, and trying to find her ovary was like bobbing for an apple hidden deep within the body. That…    read more

Two Snowmobiles On a trailer in front of the Mormon church. Blocking the view of the traffic, long trailer with its splintered wood and spray-painted sign. Some price, no telling…    read more

Homeless and Dying HIPAA-compliant   At five o’clock one morning, my hospice phone vibrated on the bedside table. I ignored it—I wasn’t on call—until it went off two more times. Propping…    read more

Peggy Guggenheim’s Role in Modern Art In 1920, determined to escape the fate of her bourgeois upbringing, Peggy Guggenheim volunteered at the Sunwise Turn, a unique women-owned bookstore on East…    read more

A Conversation with Caroline Shaw Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before…    read more

Waste Land: Otto Dix’s War Etchings  Born in 1891, Otto Dix lived during the most turbulent and destructive decades of the twentieth century. He witnessed the First World War, the…    read more

On Writing: Why It Matters, Why It’s So Difficult, and What, If Anything, Can Help  Andrew Mulvania    “We asked to be obsessed with writing,   and we were.”  — from…    read more