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Spring 2019

Spring 2019

Volume 95, Number 1

Our spring issue asks the question of how we fight, as individuals, communities, and nations: for survival, for radical change, for a sense of belonging, for a better world.

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Photograph by Thomas Dworzak

Mountain of Tongues

By Ben Mauk, Photography by Thomas Dworzak

Can a nationalist movement from the internet save the world's most scattered people?

Articles

Wendy MacNaughton’s Notes to Self

By Wendy MacNaughton, Photography by Erica Deeman

Reporting

Mountain of Tongues

By Ben Mauk, Photography by Thomas Dworzak

Essays

The Reluctant Activist

By Sidney Burris, Illustrations by Lucy Jones

Holiday Review

By Mark Sundeen, Illustrations by Jedidiah Dore

Survivor Files

By Mitchell S. Jackson, Illustrations by Shawn Theodore

Mountains and Hills (and Molehills)

By Gregory McNamee, Illustrations by Lauren Simkin Berke

The Remained

By Emily Ding

Fiction

Stray Fragments

By Valeria Luiselli, Illustrations by Ryan Floyd Johnson

Hill of Hell

By Laura van den Berg, Illustrations by Ryan Floyd Johnson

Tiger Ghost

By Mary Morris, Illustrations by Ryan Floyd Johnson

Poetry

p r i d e

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

Fuh Da Summa

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

He, Pronoun

By Tina Chang

Creation Myth

By Tina Chang

Duke Ellington, Live at the Aquacade

By Ryan Black

Pediophobia

By Daniella Toosie-Watson

Dad Says Being Gay Is Like Kissing Your Mother, then Prays

By Daniella Toosie-Watson

Birth of the Cool

By Alan Michael Parker

What Good Is Life Without Painting

By Alan Michael Parker

Poem

By Alan Michael Parker

Hawk-Man

By Ryan Black

The Microeconomics of Love

By Alan Michael Parker

Crossing

By Keetje Kuipers

Color

By Tina Chang

What Deer Season Means to Me

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

The Day a Cast of My Own Failures Rocked Me

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

Two Pit Bulls & a Bone

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

Criticism

Feminist Forms

By John Domini

An Outside Man

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

Under the Murakami Spell

By Vu Tran

On Death and Decluttering

By Michelle Orange

Photography

The People in Their Labyrinth

By Ruxandra Guidi, Photography by Fabiola Ferrero

Author Profiles

Fabiola Ferrero

Fabiola Ferrero is a photographer and journalist based in Caracas, Venezuela. She is part of the VII Mentor Program and a Magnum Foundation Fellow.

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of We Love You Charlie Freeman (Algonquin, 2016) and the forthcoming LIBERTIE (Algonquin, 2021).

Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli is the author of the novels Lost Children Archive (Knopf, 2019), The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House, 2015), and Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House, 2014), and the books of essays Sidewalks (Coffe