No. 15
Maud Casey on Albert Dadas and the will to wonder; Leslie Jamison on the West Memphis Three; Joel Rotenberg translates Ernst Weiss; Martha Cooley reads Berlin Alexanderplatz; Jeroen Toirkens’s Nomads; stories by Mary-Beth Hughes, Tania James, and Sarah A. Strickley; poems by Timothy Donnelly, Jorie Graham, Matthea Harvey, W. G. Sebald, and others.
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A Stubborn Desire
No. 15 • Maud Casey
The way of Saint James, a pilgrimage route culminating at the tomb of Saint James in Santiago Compostela in Spain, passed through Bordeaux during the Middle Ages.Fiction
Lost Cat
No. 15 • Mary-Beth Hughes
Rosalyn hunched behind the wheel of her aging Saab and texted her children.Poetry
Woman Lives in House Made of People (Weekly World News)
No. 15 • Matthea Harvey
They were lonely. I was alone.Poetry
Libraries & Museums
No. 15 • Kathleen Ossip
Their hush and their order and their devotion to the past are a deep comfort to us.Poetry
Crystalline Structure, Threat of Weather
No. 15 • Bin Ramke
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a founder / of the first American school for / the deaf, Wallace Stevens, and Samuel Colt—three buried in Cedar Hill / Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut.Poetry
Apologies from the Ground Up
No. 15 • Timothy Donnelly
The staircase hasn’t changed much through the centuriesPoetry
The Bird That Begins It
No. 15 • Jorie Graham
In the world-famous night which is already flinging away bits of darkArt
Jeroen Toirkens’s Nomads
No. 15 • Jelle Brandt Corstius
The major part of our work consists of waiting.Feature
Lost Boys
No. 15 • Leslie Jamison
The first film begins with bicycles salvaged from a muddy creek.Feature
Public AccessPraise Song for Berlin Alexanderplatz
No. 15 • Martha Cooley
Games I play while riding the subway: Check out the passengers, decide which are adulterers.Order A Public Space
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