No. 02
Lauren Redniss illustrates a star of the Ziegfeld Follies; Nam Le in Cartagena; Maile Chapman on the sinking of the Bit Forgive; Amy Leach on the dramatic life of the sea cucumber; Reality Invented: a portfolio on Russia by Natasha Randall with Andrey Platonov, Vladimir Arkhipov, Daniil Kharms, Olga Zondberg, and others; David Mitchell's Acknowledgements; poems by Laurie Sheck, Srikanth Reddy, Benjamin Paloff, and others; and introducing Corinna Vallianatos.
If You See Something
Stop.
No. 02 • Ander Monson
As of January 27, 2006, Western Union discontinued its telegram services, thus sounding the death knell for one of the first forms of more or less immediate long-distance communication.If You See Something
No
No. 02 • Michael Azerrad
I was just watching Don Letts’ excellent punk documentary Punk Attitude, and within ten minutes it had underscored a very key idea: the punk spirit ultimately boils down to a resounding, life-affirming NO.If You See Something
A Practical Solution to an Inconvenient Truth
No. 02 • Mary Mattingly
The artist Mary Mattingly started working on the Water Pod and the Wearable Water Home a few years ago: “I was just really scared.If You See Something
In Memoriam
No. 02 • Christopher Sorrentino
I owed my father a thousand dollars for twelve years.Fiction
Acknowledgements
No. 02 • David Mitchell
These 900 pages would not exist without Johnny Ball.Fiction
A Civilizing Effect
No. 02 • Corinna Vallianatos
Edith told herself she wasn’t going to date now that she was a grandmother.Art
Century Girl: The Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies
No. 02 • Lauren Redniss
Doris joined the Ziegfeld Follies Chorus at a salary of $10 a week.Poetry
Two Poems
No. 02 • Benjamin Paloff
When we consider everything we’ve failed / to do, does it really matter that our progeny / will know us only by the lists of things / we intended to buy?Poetry
Portami Il Girasole
No. 02 • Eugenio Montale
Bring me the sunflower so that I might / transplant it into burning fields of alkaliPoetry
Two Poems
No. 02 • Ann Lauterbach
Sarcastic reparations find Chile on the map find Oshkosh / find the family farmFiction
Bit Forgive
No. 02 • Maile Chapman
This morning I received a letter ostensibly from my friend Niklas Nummelin.Focus
Russia—Reality Invented
No. 02 • Natasha Randall
I used to think of Russia as a giant and unfortunate jellyfish—a hapless invertebrate, throbbing with ancient cells, which keeps having skeletons dropped on it from above: “Become this!”Focus
The Macedonian Officer
No. 02 • Andrey Platanov
As an ordinary ancient day began and the sun lit up the tense green of the country, Firs was summoned to the Tsar of Kutemalia.Focus
Home-Made
No. 02 • Vladimir Arkhipov
Vladimir Arkhipov is a self-taught artist who works in the genre of objects and installations.Focus
Letters: A Translator and a Poet Discuss the Russian Language
No. 02 • Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
You might have been expecting a note from me sooner than this!Focus
Schemata Rhetorica
No. 02 • Sergey Zavyalov
some people passed across freshly fallen / wet snow and where their soles / touched down / the earth turned dirty blackFocus
A Pseudoclassical Landscape
No. 02 • Elena Fanailova
“A dangerous battle is taking place in the air…”Focus
Untitled
No. 02 • Dmitry Kuzmin
in a TV report / about the victims of the war in Chechnya / there are shots from a hospitalFocus
The Soldier Ay Bee Cee
No. 02 • Alexander Vvedensky
… along the shore of the noisy sea walked the soldier Ay Bee Cee.Focus
Public AccessAll Cities Are Now Identical
No. 02 • Olga Zondberg
“In Europe, in past centuries, a judge put on a black hat to proclaim a verdict,” I tell the next group.Feature
Public AccessPlease Do Not Yell at the Sea Cucumber: Three Essays on Nature
No. 02 • Amy Leach
We were each like a tree grown in a cage.Order A Public Space
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