Three washings and still under my fingernails the smell of September.
Blurbed: What to Read, See and Do in January 2019
Each month, Blurbed features a curated list of things to read, events to attend and news from the Journal.
You Can’t Play It Safe: An Interview with Meghan Daum
If there’s something that you know, deep down, to be true, you will feel it in your gut, and that’s what you should write.
Three Short Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Translated from Japanese
These three stories by legendary writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa were translated from the original Japanese by Ryan C.K. Choi.
A Look Back at 2018
These essays, stories, poems, interviews, and reviews were among our most-read posts in 2018.
Review: Language Is a Revolver For Two by Mario Montalbetti
It’s as if Mario Montalbetti is daring his reader to seek permanence in poetry’s aftermath, to maintain remembrance in spite of the difficulty.
Review: On Sunset by Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison says, with a wink to the reader: “I feel no allegiance to this hypothetical child who complicates what is simple.”
Two Poems by Mary Ann Samyn
First flower, or nearly./ No one forces it to do anything./ This is the backdrop.
The Revolution Is Not Currently on View: Notes on Art’s Political Futility
At its best, art can spur change in itself; it can shift discourse, inspire protest and even destabilize the mechanisms of oppression. Right?
Review: No Budu Please by Wingston González
Reading No Budu Please is like committing to the excavation of the continual traumas that occur within a post-colonial consciousness.
From Solitaire to Solidarity
There are cameras in the cacti, drones in the sky, motion sensors buried in the ground: a Panopticon without limit or form.
Doe After the Lightning Storm
What killed her/ knew the scent of her center well, knew how to woo her/ and did.