ISSUES | fall 2014
37.3 (Fall 2014): "Ultra-violence"
Featuring work by Bruce Bond, Erika Dreifus, Jane Gillette, Rav Grewal-Kok, Allegra Hyde, Tom Ireland, Varley O’Connor, Lawrence Raab, Jill Reid, Terri Shrum Stoor, and Mako Yoshikawa.
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Nonfiction
Sep 23 2014
The Veterans Project Number Two
It’s Christmas Eve, two days after my husband and I have arrived in England to visit my family, when my mother, Hiroko Inoue Sherwin, comes down to the kitchen to… read more
Reviews
Sep 23 2014
Unmothers: Women Writing About Life Without Children
Featuring reviews of: No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood edited by Henriette Mantel with aforeword by Jennifer Coolidge. Seal Press, 2013, 248 pp., $16 (paperback; also available in e-book… read more
Fiction
Sep 23 2014
The Trail of the Demon
This isn’t a very nice story, but I feel I should tell it because at the time of the assault I lived six houses away from Dawn, and she had… read more
Nonfiction
Sep 23 2014
Brother Bomb
My father was in the living room reading the New YorkHerald Tribune when my mother’s water broke. “Bernie!” she cried out from the kitchen. “My water broke! Do something!” He… read more
Fiction
Sep 23 2014
Istanbul Nocturne: Three AM, Maybe Four
1. The young woman is sleeping. 2. Or, more exactly, the slim, even willowy young woman is sleeping beside a man named Kincaid there in the Grand Hotel de Londres… read more
Foreword
Sep 23 2014
Ultra-violence
Violence in literature and entertainment continues to be debated, and for good reason. One does get tired of it being so casually depicted in every imaginable format, from television and… read more
Nonfiction
Sep 23 2014
Walter Jean, c. 1979
Dora had lived and acted in Paris for twenty years, and that was where Walter Jean had been born. There had been a divorce, and Walter Jean, Dora informed me,… read more
Poetry
Sep 23 2014
Poetry Feature: Jill Reid
“I remember”
“New Shoes”
“Children Pulling Sweet Gum Saplings—Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, 1956”
“Plane Trip with my Sister”
“The Professor, Her Dead Grandmother, and the Student”
Fiction
Sep 23 2014
A Bellyful of Sparrow
Larson was supposed to have two of the blessed morphine every four hours, but his son had put him on a painkiller diet. Instead of the dose he was supposed… read more
Fiction
Sep 23 2014
Bury Me
It was the strangest funeral I’d ever attended. Sunsoaked—on the old farm field behind Sally’s house—the bereaved dressed in a rainbow of colors, the air sugared with cotton candy and… read more
Poetry
Sep 23 2014
Poetry Feature: Lawrence Raab
“The Scenario”
“The System”
“The Poem About the Henhouse”
“If He Knew What I Knew”
“What I Should Tell You More Often”
Poetry
Sep 23 2014
Poetry Feature: Bruce Bond
“The Saved”
“Ascension”
“Touch”
“The Fabulist”
“Glass”
Fiction
Sep 23 2014
Two Sentences (exile : life)
Punjab, 1983 From the front row I watched the highway disappear into smoke or fog and then darkness, the full darkness of a countryside without light, the headlamps showed a… read more