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October 31, 2025 | Nonfiction

Dear Jane

Gabriella D’Italia

Dear Jane,

I sometimes wear an old kimono I bought out of a by-the-pound box in a shop basement in Chicago and I listened to a podcast today about how I shouldn’t wear kimonos if I’m not Japanese

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October 31, 2025 | Poetry

Belle Chasse

Conor Hultman

I am no longer interested in the world and know that it is not interested in me.

Passing Over photo

October 30, 2025 | Fiction

Passing Over

Selen

The most unforgivable thing I’ve done that didn’t involve sex or lying was today, I was wiping the track before the next train and this man was squelched black in bone tatters in the middle, and I

With the Future Looming Up in Such Utter Chaos Before Us:

On The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride photo

October 30, 2025 |

With the Future Looming Up in Such Utter Chaos Before Us: On The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride

Sean Hooks

When discussing Eimear McBride’s new novel The City Changes Its Face, we could start with the Jonathan Franzen/Ben Marcus tete-a-tete that occurred two decades ago, when the “make it accessible,”

October 29, 2025 | Poetry

Two Poems

Noam Hessler

Because the trembling lashes are ready / Cuz the door cracks like a whip

October 28, 2025 | Poetry

A Poem For Satine: A Good Boxer.

Scott Laudati

We started off as strangers,
you and I.
And I’ll always wonder -
if there had been others
would I have picked you?
Your brothers were already gone
by the time I got there
so I paid for

October 27, 2025 | Fiction

Two Stories

Eric T. Racher

Why the fuck would a seventeen-year-old girl from Akron, Ohio say something like that? Why would that even be in her repertoire?

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