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Summer 2018

Summer 2018

Summer Fiction

Volume 94, Number 2

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Articles

Jon Gray’s Notes to Self

By Jon Gray, Photography by James Ball

Essays

The News From the World of Beauty

By Hannah Louise Poston, Illustrations by Anna Sudit

Of Epics and Sagas

By Gregory McNamee, Illustrations by Lauren Simkin Berke

Unmanned

By Will Boast

Walking Away

By Julia Cooke

Interviews

The Imaginative Reality of Ursula K. Le Guin

By David Naimon, Illustrations by Sara Tyson

Fiction

The Pardner

By Koye Oyedeji, Illustrations by Anna Schuleit Haber

Wrong Yoga

By Karan Mahajan, Illustrations by Sergio García Sánchez

Mary When You Follow Her

By Carmen Maria Machado, Illustrations by Sergio García Sánchez

The Moving of the Water

By David Lloyd, Illustrations by Sergio García Sánchez

She Cannot Work

By Ashleigh Young, Illustrations by Anders Nilsen

The Boys

By Ben Marcus, Illustrations by Anders Nilsen

Learning

By Catherine Lacey, Illustrations by Anders Nilsen

Geometry

By Elliott Holt, Illustrations by Anna Schuleit Haber

High Pursuit

By Mitchell S. Jackson, Illustrations by Melody Newcomb

Yams

By Ladee Hubbard, Illustrations by Anna Schuleit Haber

Annihilation

By Celia Bell, Illustrations by Melody Newcomb

Collusion

By Madeleine Schwartz, Illustrations by Melody Newcomb

Poetry

Glutoneer

By Kaveh Akbar

Dear Eros,

By Traci Brimhall

Reza’s Restaurant, Chicago, 1997

By Kaveh Akbar

Sphinx

By Traci Brimhall

Dearest Eros,

By Traci Brimhall

Victory

By D. Nurkse

Lord of Childhood

By D. Nurkse

Pastoral

By Jabari Jawan Allen

The letters on the neon sign go out, one a year, or are not repaired

By Ed Skoog

Nocturne

By Jabari Jawan Allen

Slender the residence of immensity

By Ed Skoog

To wear a vigorous shirt. At See-See Coffee

By Ed Skoog

The Soul Wishes It Could Blow on the Wound

By Jabari Jawan Allen

When Thy King Is a Boy: Black Dance and the Question of Agency in the Quare Body

By Jabari Jawan Allen

Seed

By Jabari Jawan Allen

Criticism

Personal Terrors

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Photography

Beckon Us From Home

Photography by Sarah Blesener

Books We Should Have Known

Photography by Jo Emmerson