ISSUES | summer 2015
38.2 (Summer 2015): "Defy"
Featuring work by Aamina Ahmad, Jennifer Barber, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Kate McIntyre, David Naimon, Doug Ramspeck, Robin Romm and the photography of Jacob Riis.
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Curio Cabinet
Jul 21 2015
Living Energy: the Abstract Expressionist Paintings of Michael West
A work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. —Kandinsky After her divorce from theater actor Randolph Nelson, to whom she’d been married… read more
Features
Jul 21 2015
Flowers and Thugs: the Slum Photos of Jacob Riis
During the winter of 1888, New York police reporter Jacob Riis’s children had scarlet fever, and from Christmas until Easter they seemed to waste away in their sick beds. On… read more
Reviews
Jul 15 2015
The Desert Island Novel: A Small Place for Big Characters
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Signet Classic, 2008, 322 pp., $5.95 (paper). Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Modern Library Classics, 2001, 240 pp., $11.99. Robinson by Muriel Spark. New… read more
Poetry
Jul 14 2015
Poetry Feature: Miriam Bird Greenberg
“Would You Believe”
“Ophidia”
“Valediction”
“A Thousand Wires Humming”
Poetry
Jul 14 2015
Poetry Feature: Jennifer Barber
“Motion Harmony #1”
“Motion Harmony #2”
“Motion Harmony #4”
“Inscription in the Book, Invisible Ink”
“Station”
“Nests”
Foreword
Jul 14 2015
Foreward: Defy
Once while visiting a park on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, I observed what appeared to be anarchic behavior among a group of squirrel monkeys. More than twenty of… read more
Poetry
Jul 14 2015
Poetry Feature: Doug Ramspeck
“Black Flowers”
“Snow Prayers”
“Winter Country”
“The Art of Morning”
“Confession of Bats”
“Old Men”
Fiction
Jul 14 2015
The Prodigal Daughter
At the time of her mother’s death, Eileen had called her once a week from London. She even wrote the odd letter now and then, getting into a correspondence with… read more
Fiction
Jul 14 2015
What to Expect
Three am, four am, the inky blot of time between night and dawn, she sat up in bed covered in sweat. There were no dreams to blame. She’d stopped dreaming. It… read more
Fiction
Jul 14 2015
Snow Angels
They reached the edge of town with the sun below the rooftops. Before them stretched a forsaken street of abandoned shops and businesses, weeds tufting the sidewalk. At a major… read more
Fiction
Jul 14 2015
July Sun
It was a girl. Ghulam Ali flushed. He wasn’t the kind of man to leer at young women relieving themselves in the fields. He turned to leave, hoping to disappear… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 14 2015
Possess Stone Wall
This is my father’s cyclical descent into madness; I’ve seen it before. The last time it was him in his underpants marching around the house wearing his enormous noise-canceling headphones,… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 14 2015
Hobart Dreams
My brother had held the head dishwasher position at the Bamboo Gardens for three years. When he went off to college, I took his place. But I was not half… read more