ISSUE 132

181 Pages

In This Issue:

Nonfiction

“Saguaro in the Sea” by Sophia Acuña: on surfing and indigeneity in Southern California, told
through collage.

“Care Directive” by Sarah Matsui: a daughter’s attempt to keep her aging father in Hawaii from
all sorts of calamity, but having to monitor him from the mainland.

“Triptych: A Biographer’s Sketchbook” by Carolyn Burke: “The Baroness was lively, curious, and
still blond at eighty-five. She received me in a flurry of franglais, the mingling of two languages
in which we would converse, and put us at ease with pink champagne, her favorite.”

Fiction 

“Decoys” by Will Boast: goofing around working at the town supermarket, burning through the
days till it all comes to head.

“Lilac Mud” by Anita Felicelli: A Bay Area artist in Amsterdam is approached one night by a man
claiming to be a former student, leading to a crisis of identity and purpose.

“Grote geplumaceerde” by Emily Nemens: “Afterward, staring hard at her phone, which was
her radio, which was the bearer of bad news, she wondered what mattered at all.”

Poetry

Kevin Cantwell, Geraldine Jorge, Jonathon Keats, Caroline Kessler, and Noelani Piters.

In Conversation

Lydia Kiesling talks to acclaimed author Karen Russell about Russell’s latest novel, The Antidote,
and about Russell’s “fascination with foundational myths, the things we choose to know, and
the things we choose to ignore or forget.”

Art

Ian Everard