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In Which We Imitate Our Loves
Nearer Everything by ALEX CARNEVALE What the American male really wants is two things: he wants to be blown by a stranger while reading a newspaper, he wants to be fucked by his buddy when he's drunk....
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In Which We Recall It At A Moment's Notice
The New York Review of Hooks Vol. 6 by BRITTANY JULIOUS Party Girl breaks through every few years because it has to. Whether it is Parker Posey's perfect humor, the fashion, or the snapshot of a...
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In Which We Will See When We Are Older
The Conversation by HAFSA ARAIN If you asked my parents about me, they would probably assume I got all of my personality traits from the Roald Dahl books I read as a child. Every American part of me...
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In Which We Tried All Of The Bars
How to Behave The final diaries of Søren Kierkegaard occupy themselves primarily with an extended discussion of faith. Søren viewed most things through the lens of Christ, usually disdaining the...
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In Which The Place Begins To Feel Familiar
Moving the Mundane by SHELBY SHAW Consuming Spirits dir. Chris Sullivan 136 min. Recent psychology has recommended you shouldn’t do what you love for work. Artists may be the sole exception to the...
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In Which We Learn How To Care For The Animals
Rider by DAVID GHERGSON Vela unhorsed the girl with her foot. She could not remember the name of the creature. The mare was called Manse. As she fell the girl said, "I know why you did that." Vela...
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In Which We Can't Go On We'll Go On
The Body by ANAÏS MATHERS Ghosts do not happen alone. Ghosts are made from rooms and glass and cherry trees. They lie down and become horizons. You see by them. You remember. - C. Dylan Bassett My...
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In Which We Dress In Layers
by alan bray Snow Line by JEAN HANNAH EDELSTEIN It was already too late when I realized that some 18-year-olds had the wisdom to choose to study at universities where the sun shone most of the year, in...
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In Which The Trees Turn Green Again
Applachian by CATHALEEN QIAO CHEN When I was growing up in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, my parents and I would road trip up and down the scenic parts of the Rust Belt in our hideous mauve...
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In Which We Lose The Excitement Over Its Possibility
Last Try by LUCY MORRIS It is well below zero in Iowa City today. It’s long johns and duck boots until April, a fur hat around the house, four layers of clothing to go jogging. The fake chenille...
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In Which Lorrie Moore Returns To Self-Help
Down Here by SHAHIRAH MAJUMDAR This is what life’s done so far down here, this is all and what and everything it’s managed — this body, these bodies, that body. So what do you think, Heaven? What do...
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In Which We Fall At An Inopportune Time
At Iliam by DAYNA EVANS There is a room in the Philadelphia Museum of Art that houses ten Cy Twombly drawings in a series called “Fifty Days At Iliam.” Cy Twombly is dead now, which is a shame because...
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In Which Nobody Sees Us Glowing
Living Alone by ALICE BOLIN 1 “Your absence has gone through me/Like thread through a needle,” reads W.S. Merwin’s classic, tiny poem “Separation.” “Everything I do is stitched with its color.” Some...
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In Which We Show You How To Use The Tumblr Website
So You Think You Can Tumbl? by KARA VANDERBIJL There is sufficient scientific evidence to suggest that having a presence on Tumblr will one day count for as much as a primordial cave drawing or an...
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In Which We Examine The Label On The Bottle
Very Polished by SHELBY SHAW Side Effects dir. Steven Soderbergh 106 min. When my therapist suggested looking into medication to control my anxiety, I simply said, “OK, I’ll think about it” and...
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In Which She Is A 19th Wave Feminist
Who Loves You by LAUREN BANS You know what, guys? I first addressed the evils of the NYT's Modern Love column years ago. But the essay series continues its reign of terror, and the editors are not...
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In Which We Begin To Vacation At Our Leisure
Family Vacation by DURGA CHEW-BOSE × The time will never be right for a family vacation. × It’s been years, nearer to a decade, since the last one. × Somehow, plans for one are hatched. × By...
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In Which We Follow Every Bump In The Night
Morbid Curiosities by CHRIS MORGAN Our world gives us easy passage to most of our desires, but we are still haunted by satisfactions not yet met. For all the talk of innovation and the future being...
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In Which We Iterate Upon Ourselves
To Think Of While Writing Setting it down is a difficult part, but not the difficult part for the writers who speak below. There is a world that surrounds what we read, and our inquiries into is are...
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In Which We Reach The Safe Haven At Last
Southern Beaches by MAXWELL NEELY-COHEN Safe Haven dir. Lasse Hallström 115 min. When I was 15, not long after switching from a D.C. public school to a small, notoriously liberal private school, I...
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