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Our second issue is available for pre-order and will ship in mid-December. Featuring work from Padgett Powell, Mary Ruefle, Daniel Wilson, Avi Loeb, Michael Chang, Jim Hanas, Noah Kumin, Grace H. Zhou, Charlie Sterchi, Mitchell Galloway, Daisy Cashin, Tom Ianelli, Sam Frank Jr., Zachary Scott, and more.
From our Second Issue:
PADGETT POWELL (author of The Interrogative Mood): Defiant responses to notes from a sensitivity reader hired by his publisher; a cri de coeur for defending literature from bureaucratic censors
MICHAEL CHANG (Things A Bright Boy Can Do): Six new poems on Jimmy Baldwin, performativity, and the interests of the moose
MARY RUEFLE (The Book): A list of whimsical envelope labels used to organize found photos
DANIEL WILSON (@greatbritisharchitecture): A pilgrimage to village churches across Britain
JIM HANAS (Why They Cried): An antonymic translation of a Stevens poem
AVI LOEB (Interstellar): Could we detect a nuclear war on an exoplanet?
SAM FRANK JR.: A gonzo tale of Deadheads and Wrestlemaniacs clashing in Vegas
NOAH KUMIN (Ed., Mars Review of Books): A young man from the Northeast languishes in a mossy Florida college town, contemplating the ‘there there’ of his surroundings and soul
GRACE H. ZHOU (Soil Called a Country): Two healing poems from the mountains of Kyrgyzstan
THE SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP DEBATE
Poems by the EARL OF OXFORD including accounts from contemporaries;
Historic speculation by MARK TWAIN and HENRY JAMES;
MATTHEW GASDA (Dimes Square and Other Plays) offers a democratic defense of Shakespeare of Stratford; JOHN MORAN notes that Oxfordian themes like pseudonymity, propaganda, and cancellation speak to our time
Our first issue features work from Tony Tulathimutte, Chante Reid, Rick Moody, Amrapali Maitra, Mariana Roa Oliva, Elliot Reed, Susan Cerulean, Axel Void, Zoë Dutka, Kelly Karivalis, Givens Parr, Jeff Horn, Trevor Crown, M. C. Jia, Danny Hoang, Griffin Smith, Emory Johnson, Ava Chickering, Will Penman, and more.
Find it on the shelves at McNally Jackson, Casa Magazines, and elsewhere.
From our First Issue:
ELLIOT REED (author of A Key to Treehouse Living): A fragmented essay on gravity, water, consciousness, and fatherhood during the Asheville floods;
CHANTE REID (Thot): A short story about a prideful filmmaker with an academic agenda shooting a documentary in a Bronx housing complex;
RICK MOODY (Hotels of North America): Ten poems on pleading the fifth, home repairs, and a butterfly refuge along the southern border;
TONY TULATHIMUTTE (Rejection): A thesis on projection, rejection, and abjection; plus the myth of Timagoras and Meles;
AMRAPALI MAITRA: Parvati shops for a new bathtub in a retelling of the birth of Ganesha;
SUSAN CERULEAN (Coming to Pass): On listening to wild plovers along the Gulf of Mexico;
MARIANA ROA OLIVA (Seedlings_:Walk in Time): On internet detritus and petty animals;
and more.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF WRITING
“The Ephemeral Manifesto” calls on writers to resist AI through analog tech;
“Humanitatis Intelligentia Naturae” lists web domains used for AI inference as a textual object;
AI-written haikus summarize daily news.