The Brutality Issue
From the Editor
The tree threatens to crush the larvae into a yellow paste if the wasps do not do its bidding and find the girl.
Sailors’ll claim drowning is a pleasant way to go, and perhaps it’s so, providing there is nothing to hold you to this world.
Let the man kill me, he thought. Let him rush the stage and put a gun to my head. Let him tell me to repent.
He offered the men whiskey and quail eggs, maps and divining rods, and, finally, a vision of the township: irrigation, railroads, and a new age.
An avid birder in search of an elusive thrush hopes to get away from it all, but is instead confronted by his own species’ migration.
You know what? TV isn’t violent at all. You should see the rating on my mind.
Can a diner be sacred? An erstwhile drifter settles in tiny Alma, Michigan, frequenting the Big Boy and falling for the dry cleaner’s countergirl.
On a trip back to her own private Chicago, the author revisits a past she can’t outride and sees the city anew.
Poetry by Marvin Bell
Poetry by Dorianne Laux
Poetry by Jeanne Emmons
Poetry by Robert Cording
Poetry by Elizabeth Bradfield.
Poetry by Julie
Poetry by
Poetry by Julie Larios
Poetry by Todd Boss
Poetry by Sherman Alexie
Poetry by
Poetry by Bruce Cohen
National Geographic’s environment editor refutes the demise of journalism and shares his optimism for winning the global warming fight through a bold scientific innovation.
Photographs from Domesticated
An introduction to Eudora Welty’s “The Wide Net”
In the debut of our new "Reclamation" feature, we let a contemporary short-story master choose and introduce a classic story whose genius has gone unrecognized by the mainstream. We’ll offer readers a chance to revisit the story in our pages. If you could read just one Eudora Welty story, this is the one, argues our inaugural reclaimer, Antonya Nelson.
Life is more believable when it cameos in Jonathan Lethem’s otherworldly fiction. Does his realer-than-real surreality make him the writer for our time?
A Map by Bret Anthony Johnston
Graphic Fiction by Jamie Tanner
