No. 26
I still had the Piedmontese capital in my mind; the monarchic city
with its piazzas inhabited by scientists and kings, by politicians and by warriors
motionless in tired and solemn poses on their pedestals of stone, I still had in
mind all of the strange lyricism of its fateful geometric construction.
—Giorgio de Chirico
Fiction
Do Not Let Mother Dear Find Us
No. 26 • Yiyun Li
Here I was, holding on to my attentiveness.Cities
Public AccessVale Lutetia
No. 26 • Giorgio de Chirico
The suburbs of the avant-city appeared to me suddenly speckled with singing colors, papered with charming surprises.Fiction
Our Experience of Being Alive and Having to Breathe
No. 26 • Lea Carpenter
Which is to say, a big struggle begat a little struggle begat a boy who dreamed of living in America, struggle free.Photography
Temple of Hercules on the Citadel Mountain in Amman, Jordan, 2012
No. 26 • Josef Koudelka
Fiction
Woman Sleeping
No. 26 • Teolinda Gersão
"Bodies are difficult," said the woman when the child finally slipped inside the dream.Fiction
San Juan
No. 26 • Eduardo Lalo
Exile had a way of provoking contempt. One lived far away because one couldn't live inside.City-Building
American Townscape [1953]
No. 26 • Christopher Tunnard
A cheerful optimism and an expanding economy have fostered the idea that technology can be harnessed to overcome any difficulty.Document
Juxtapositions
No. 26 • Russell Atkins
Art does not have to "work." It is. It's not created, necessarily, for the public to decide whether it "works" or not.Letters
I Had Been Meaning to Write
No. 26 • Bette Howland
Stop the presses! I thought of a better word! Almost the right one!Fiction
In a Deer Stand
No. 26 • Dorthe Nors
It's a question of time. Sooner or later, somebody will show up.Fiction
Contract Work
No. 26 • Bonnie Nadzam
And then what, they all say together, and repeat it again and again, and then what, and then what, and then what.Public Assembly
Audience, Crowd, and State
No. 26 • Bruce Barber
There are people who are frightened by the very idea of being part of an audience.Poetry
The Infinities
No. 26 • Joanna Klink
All the days you have / ever breathed are swallows / shooting between trees.Poetry
Missing File #1: Woolly Rhinoceros / Ancient Cavity Tooth
No. 26 • Alison Powell
To give oneself is a way to say one’s self can be gifted, like the hollowed-out horn.Poetry
For You I’ve Started Sleeping
No. 26 • Kaveh Akbar
if I loved you for your beauty? / there are worse reasons to lovePoetry
Epithalamion
No. 26 • Fady Joudah
That this is love’s profession, our scents / on pillows displace our alphabet to grassPoetry
Amuse-Bouche
No. 26 • Max Ritvo
But each plate obliterates the last / until I no longer mourn the destroyed plate.Poetry
The Covered-Up Clock
No. 26 • Zsuzsa Takács
And, although inaudible, still they are calling you.Poetry
Venus Surrender
No. 26 • Jordan Joy Hewson
I will love because it has been detected as the second / brightest octave to exist in the skyPoetry
When the Other Man Asked Him Did He Pray
No. 26 • Richard Robbins
All those miles down the boulevard, numbers counting down by twos.Fellow
Meeting Points: Between and In Between Subject and Object
No. 26 • Cleo Mikutta
The articulation of a word dissolves, and the most carefully strung together sentence falls apart.Fellow
Bergtagen
No. 26 • Phoebe McIlwain Bright
She had never liked the dark and the feeling that anything could be in it.Proposals
Interiors
No. 26 • Melissa McGraw & Will Fryer
These are the original ceilings. They attract our eyes.Travel Diary
Public AccessJourney Along the Sea Road
No. 26
The human heart is more treacherous than these waters.Poetry
La Bête Noire
No. 26 • Marcel Broodthaers
The animals of the zodiac do not determine destiny.Order A Public Space
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