ISSUES | summer 2018
41.2 (Summer 2018): “Second Skin”
Featuring poetry by Matty Layne Glasgow, Chelsea Rathburn and Margot Wizansky. Prose by May-lee Chai, Ernest J. Finney, JM Holmes, Carolyn Ogburn, Robert Leonard Reid, Natasha Sajé, and Steven Schwartz. Also inside: the art of Ernesto García Cabral.
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Art
Jul 24 2018
Making It Modern: the Art Deco Illustrations of Ernesto García Cabral
Mexican caricaturist, cartoonist, and illustrator Ernesto García Cabral’s work illustrates the reach and popularity of art deco. While he was a prolific artist, creating several thousand cartoons and caricatures, his… read more
Curio Cabinet
Jul 24 2018
Silence to Sound: the Resilience of Marion Davies
—I thought I didn’t want to go back. I thought I’d like to jump off the boat and wished the earth would open up, because I said “I cannot do… read more
Features
Jul 24 2018
Rags to Riches: Five Biographies from the World of High Fashion
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” —Oscar Wilde Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney. Penguin Books, 2011, 448 pp., $18… read more
Poetry
Jul 24 2018
Poetry Feature: Chelsea Rathburn
Featuring the poems:
“Postpartum: A Fairy Tale”
“Introduction to Patriarchy”
“Introduction to Sex Education”
“Introduction to Art History”
“The Face in the Chalice”
Poetry
Jul 24 2018
Poetry Feature: Margot Wizansky
Featuring the poems:
“Cotton Baby”
“The Boss’s Store”
“Their House Is No Sweet Home”
“After His Father Dies”
“On the Liberty Ship”
“The Port Battalion”
“You Call This a Bar?”
Poetry
Jul 24 2018
Poetry feature: Matty Layne Glasgow
Featuring the poems:
“deciduous qween, I”
“deciduous qween, II”
“deciduous qween, III”
“deciduous qween, V”
“Bayou Baby”
Foreword
Jul 24 2018
Foreword: Second Skin
In his over 4000-page, seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust looks at our paradoxical relationship with time—how we both change and don’t change, how our experiences are… read more
Fiction
Jul 24 2018
The Man Who Fell out of a Tree
On the morning of October 19, 1559, the organist and sometime mathematician Stefano Di Pasqua assumed the position of choirmaster of the Basilica of Saint Anthony the Lesser in the… read more
Fiction
Jul 24 2018
The Pickers
SCOTT & EDWARDS, ANTIQUES, PAINTINGS, PRINTS, FURNITURE, ORIENTAL RUGS, SILVER,PORCELAIN, BOOKS.She stepped back a little so the receptionist could see who she was and buzz her in. AUCTIONS, ESTATES, APPRAISALS.… read more
Fiction
Jul 24 2018
The Legend of Lonnie Lion
Two pieces of my pops’ advice stuck with me—Don’t marry a white girl and Never pick the skin off chicken. It’s the best part. I don’t pick the skin off… read more
Fiction
Jul 24 2018
Ordinary Time
The parking lot was light by six in the morning, but its streetlights still buzzed and flickered yellow in the gray-green dawn. House wrens flitted across the abandoned asphalt, little… read more
Fiction
Jul 24 2018
Life on Mars
He was hungry, and his parents had said not to make a fuss. He was lucky to be in America. He must do well in school, they’d said, obey Uncle… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 24 2018
The Loneliest Moon
One of the most pernicious stages of insomnia is when it becomes an opponent. You want to outfox, outflank, outsmart it (lots of adversarial synonyms go through your head at… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 24 2018
Mordwand
From behind the bar, Frau Steffen looked me up and down as if appraising an animal a livestock show. She was not quite thirty, tiny and blonde, birdlike with sharp… read more