nonfiction

War Bond

Matthew Jakubowski

An experimental review of War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda Translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent Open Letter Books, November 2015   The critic’s father had been dead a little more than four years. As…

Can You Hear What I’m Saying

Peri Himsel

Spotlight 1 In 1988, Gallaudet University elected another hearing president. The students of Gallaudet believed that the time had come for a deaf person to run the university for the deaf and hard of hearing—they created the Deaf President Now protest…

Otherwise, Ferguson

Ashon Crawley

Otherwise. Otherwise than this. To begin here in the otherwise, as the otherwise, is to pose a question about tears born in dreams. Ever wake with tears in your eyes? Or down your cheek? Those tears serve memorial. Those tears…

Vulturism

Genevieve Valentine

  Someone had turned in six albums to the store, thick as dictionaries, each full to bursting with slivered photos askew in their pockets. There were eight or nine of every setup; Chester the photographer took no chances. Each was…