Volume 2: Issue 1

Spring 2023

Select articles available free below

On the cover: Map of Salt by The Egocircus Collective

Contents

DEPARTMENTS

by Katha Pollitt

Editor’s Letter

by Jennifer Baumgardner

Close Encounters

by Alexander Bondoc

Redux

Revisiting the Parental Horror Film

by Adam Carston

Streaming Now

Bread and Circuses

by Laurie Stone

Crit

(Some Notes On) Confession

by Charis Caputo

Ritual

Abortion in Community

by Annie Finch

Primary Sources

The Collected Rejections of Katherine Dunn

by Naomi Huffman

Fiction

by Rachel DeWoskin

Poetry

by Marion Brown

Poetry

‘Dead at Last’, ‘Nirvana’, and ‘Phone Call’

by Linda Bamber

Inside Back Cover

How Joyous We Once Were

by The Egocircus Collective

REVIEWS

Warts and All

‘Toad: A Novel by Katherine Dunn’

Reviewed by Sarah Schulman

Whose Reality Is It Anyway

‘Sterling Karat Gold’ by Isabel Waidner

Reviewed by Michelle Tea

To Be Real

‘The Means: A Novel’ by Amy Fusselman

Reviewed by Anastasia Higginbotham

Spiraling Home

‘HERmione’ by H.D.

Reviewed by Annie Finch

Women, In Love

‘Couplets: A Love Story’ by Maggie Millner

Reviewed by Noelle McManus

TILIFI

‘Miss Major Speaks’ by Miss Major and Toshio Meronek, and ‘Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation’, by Qween Jean, Joela Rivera, Mikelle Street, & Raquel Willis

Reviewed by McKenzie Wark

Firsts

‘Constance Baker Motley’ by Tomiko Brown-Nagin;
‘Shirley Chisholm’ by Anastasia C. Curwood;
‘Patsy Takemoto Mink’ by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

Reviewed by Claire Potter

Hidden in Plain Sight

‘She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C.’ at The Morgan Library and Museum

Reviewed by Cynthia Payne