Issue 48 | May-June 2017
Infertility Rites: Monica Youn’s Blackacre
In her previous life as an attorney, Monica Youn represented Mr. Potato Head and made the rounds explaining Citizens United to ordinary citizens. With her turn as mother, the former…
Infinitely Weird Flights of Mind: Jeremy Bushnell’s The Insides
Our senses discern four dimensions, three spatial and one temporal. Quantum physics notably augmented this self-evidence with anywhere from six to an infinite number of unobservable dimensions. So where are…
#MotherLit: Barber, Mnookin, Parks, & Ross
Following up on the Motherhood issue (March-April 2017), Chloe García Roberts and Mia You asked four authors to reflect on the literature that become important to them after they became mothers. We’d love to…
Or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying: Collaborative Writing, Motherhood, and the Atom Bomb
In Inger Christensen’s long poem Alphabet, first published in Danish in 1981, the poet cooks potatoes. And atom bombs exist. While she stands in the kitchen peeling potatoes under the…