ISSUES | spring 2017
40.1 (Spring 2017): “Turbulent”
Featuring the winners of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and work by Rajeev Valashubramanyam, Jason Brown, John J. Clayton, Edward Hamlin, Tyler Keevil, Jacqueline Kolosov, Kate McIntyre, Karen Skolfield, Nancy Takacs, Heather Treseler, Robert Wrigley, C Pam Zhang, and an interview with Andre Dubus III.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Jul 25 2017
Book Review: Putting on the Dog
Putting on the Dog: Canine Characterization in Fiction and Nonfiction Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Atheneum, 2000, 144 pp., $7.99 (paper). My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley. NYRB Classics, 1999,… read more
Foreword
Jul 25 2017
Foreword: Turbulent
This issue—particularly its fiction—is replete with instances of darkness and turmoil in personal lives, and I wonder if this might be because fiction so frequently holds a mirror to the… read more
Editors' Prize Winner
Jul 25 2017
Swarf
Winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Essay Hot swarf hit me in the eye, the pain insane, furious, awe-inspiring. The pain was so intense it seemed to… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 25 2017
Nemerov’s Door
You think you might begin this story with an admission: you really don’t know who you are, or who you were, or how you became the one after the other.… read more
Poetry
Jul 25 2017
Poetry Feature: Karen Skolfield
“Grenade: Origin < OF. pomme-grenate" "The Throwing Gap" "Private, PV2, Private First Class" "Company B Graduation Booklet: PV2 Skolfield"
Poetry
Jul 25 2017
Poetry Feature: Nancy Takacs
“Talking to God on County Road H”
Poetry
Jul 25 2017
Poetry Feature: Heather Treseler
“Daphne on Being Wood”
“Persephone’s Postcard”
“Demeter: Calendar Girl”
Editors' Prize Winner
Jul 25 2017
Instructions to the Living from the Condition of the Dead
The door hinges creaked, and the thudding footfalls of his family shook the beams. What were they doing here today, the day before Thanksgiving? Voices, the crackling of grocery bags,… read more
Fiction
Jul 25 2017
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
In the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra saw not his life flash before him but his ideology. First came his years at Hyderabad, his BA in Economics when he… read more
Fiction
Jul 25 2017
A Small but Perfect Happiness
The photos arrived at all hours, nearly always catching Sandra by surprise. She might be sorting through her mother’s things when the phone burbled with another text, or trying to… read more
Fiction
Jul 25 2017
And How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars. Sam’s tapping an angry beat come morning but Lucy, before they leave, feels a need to speak. Silence… read more
Fiction
Jul 25 2017
Joy
“Of course—a Talmudic joke: we don’t know when we’re going to die, so it’s today you should repent. In my case, I do know—well, I know approximately. And I’m not repenting, Doctor. I simply… read more