The whole point of a skull / is to hit other people with the skull.
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Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or...
The Hero as a Drifting Shadow
The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth
Joseph Andras, a working-class neo-modernist novelist, shows us why embalming our revolutionary heroes is a mistake.
A suicidal crow (or is it a seagull?) — the most salacious therapy circle — leaving the dinner date — meeting Petra. In short: four stories.
Writing a poem / Writing a poem in a pharmacy / Writing a poem in a pharmacy in north carolina
The Ballad of Glanton Dowdell
An excerpt from The Black Utopians
Glanton Dowdell, painter of Detroit's Black Madonna, took a picaresque journey through the American 1930s.
From Issue 3
In the Domain of the Unknown
From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.
A drowned Victorian teen, her medical manikin doppelganger, and their enduring entanglement with the question: “Can death be undone?”
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
A Specter Hangs Over the Hamptons Couch
Inside the Outsider Art fair
On perusing the obscene spectacle of the Outsider Art Fair, a communist declares: abolish the art market!
