No. 05
Cattle Haul: the debut of Jesmyn Ward; Leslie Jamison reads Vladimir Propp; Ian Chillag on Kurt Vonnegut; Zoe Ferraris listens in on the secret phone calls of Saudi women; Lucy Begg illustrates Richard Linklater's treehouse; Peter Trachtenberg on narratives of suffering; Steve Featherstone's photographs from Afghanistan; stories by James Lasdun, Wells Tower, and Ernst Weiss; poems by Fanny Howe, Caroline Knox, Andrew McCord, Kevin Young, and more.
If You See Something
At-Talifoon
No. 05 • Zoe Ferraris
Just after the first Gulf War, I moved to Jeddah with my husband.If You See Something
Shark Means Knife
No. 05 • Ian Chillag
The story goes that as a child my mother finished a book every day.If You See Something
Off the Pages and Onto the Sidewalk
No. 05 • Roland Kelts
Ten p.m. in Shimokitazawa, a neighborhood of circuitous alleyways ten minutes or so west of central Tokyo by train.If You See Something
The Revenge of the Angry Black Artist
No. 05 • Jervey Tervalon
Years ago, when I was a Disney Screenwriting Fellow (a program that evolved out of the need for Disney never again to be dead last in employing women and writers of color, probably more out of corporate embarrassment than enlightened self interest), I had the thankless task, they didn’t even own the rights, of adapting Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.Fiction
The Rat Ship
No. 05 • Ernst Weiss
If I am to explain how, because of my father, I became the person I am, I must begin with the story of my father, with the man who had a determining influence on my youth.Poetry
The Detour Across the Delaware
No. 05 • Tomaž Šalamun
Inebriating. We’re inebriating. Seasons are / clay windows, we climb through them / all radiant.Poetry
I Don’t Burn
No. 05 • Kevin Young
Dear Darkness—consider this / my last attempt / to reach you.Poetry
The Ghost of Edna Lieberman
No. 05 • Roberto Bolaño
They visit you in the darkest hour / all of your lost loves.Poetry
Two Poems
No. 05 • Angie Yuan
The pieces that broke off the Song Dynasty / horse as it was crated from Hong / Kong to NorfolkPoetry
Slow Demolition, Huron and State
No. 05 • Aaron McCollough
The plaster / will come down in blue dust / with these hoses turned upon it / and the sun in its housePoetry
The Virtues of Birds
No. 05 • Craig Morgan Teicher
Two birds came upon a crust of bread lying on the path through the woods.Poetry
De La Rue’s Envelope Machine
No. 05 • Robyn Schiff
With output of twenty-seven hundred envelopes an hour where prior butthree thousand were made a day, cry when you consider the empty envelopes piled on each of our desksFiction
The Old Man
No. 05 • James Lasdun
The two women appeared in Conrad’s office late one afternoon in March.Feature
Field Notes from a Treehouse
No. 05 • Lucy Begg
"Do not worry if you have built castles in the air . . . that is where they should be . . . now put the foundations under them . . ." —Henry David ThoreauFiction
Door in Your Eye
No. 05 • Wells Tower
That first evening in my new city, I had a phone call from my father, wanting to know how I was getting on.Fiction
Cattle Haul
No. 05 • Jesmyn Ward
It’s easier driving through the country, especially when you doing a cattle haul.Feature
Heads Up: Military Graffiti in Kuwait and Afghanistsan
No. 05 • Steve Featherstone
Last July, I was stranded for a week at Camp Ali Al Salem, a U.S. military base in Kuwait.Fiction
Lessons for a Dead Hare
No. 05 • Mario Bellatin
In one of the texts in The Notebook of Things that Are Difficult to Explain, the blind poet speaks of a certain event that took place in an institution known as the Last Citadel.Feature
The Grief Work
No. 05 • Peter Trachtenberg
“All his life Peter was afraid of flying,” Sally Goodrich said.Order A Public Space
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