Finna by Nino Cipri Sierra Biggs Finding an elderly grandmother who’s lost in a furniture store should be easy, right? Well, maybe not if...

When God Opens a Door He Closes a Loophole One spring morning, a sinkhole opened up at the far end of the elementary school. It swallowed...

Flat-Pack by Anney Bolgiano Phoebe Myers Grafting a plant requires the fusing of a root and a shoot; the two parts meld together to...

To Accept the Void 1 a devastation gives way 2 the void invites me over for tea and prickly pear it explains oblivion in terms of a...

Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change by Anjali Enjeti Liesel Hamilton When you open Anjali Enjeti’s Southbound:...

"About the Work" with Nadia Shahbaz In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their...

"About the Work" with Hannah V Warren In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their...

“Outside of Time”: An Interview with Pace Taylor By K. Iver See more of Pace Taylor's artwork in Vol. 39.2 here. Artist's Statement My...

Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov Tanner Barnes Alex Dimitrov’s third collection, Love and Other Poems, starts in the middle of 14th...

Theater of Inheritance Fenced in the naming, a music: A crescendo of water lifts a shape. This inspires the first conscious attempt at...

An Interview with Julietta Singh Katya Buresh Photo: Chase Joynt Julietta Singh is a writer and academic whose work engages the enduring...

Handwashing Dishes You find yourself in Phoenix in your mother’s dark kitchen amid piles of dirty dishes, glasses, pots, and baking pans....

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner So Young Koo As a Korean living in America, for me the title of Michelle Zauner’s memoir conjures up...

Crushing It by Jennifer L. Knox Tanner Barnes Jennifer L. Knox’s latest poetry collection, Crushing It, is hilarious and heartbreaking....

The Witch of Eye by Kathryn Nuernberger Isabella Tommasone In this curious and perceptive collection of essays, The Witch of Eye,...

Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang Li Zhuang The simplistic and elegantly designed cover of Alexandra Chang’s debut novel, Days of...