Issue 59 | June 2019

The Scandalous Confessions of a Lesbian Formalist Poet

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I am saying that you must be a poet, because you are asking so many questions.

Two translated essays by Suzanne Brøgger

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“Happiness is losing something” and “Who needs witches?” translated by Michael Goldman.

Consider the Octopus: On Brenda Shaughnessy

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What better symbol for the middle aged woman—for the middle aged woman writer?

Juntas and Housewives: Three Books from Brazil

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Brazil’s “ghosts” refuse to stay buried in these three novels.

Infinite Metabolism: Lispector’s Consumptions

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And what if we are, I am, you are that marginalized person? When I erase myself, what do I become?

Traces in Rituals: On Kiriti Sengupta

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The famed Kolkata poet seeks coherence in the chaos we call reality.

Conversations: Jennifer Barber and Leslie McGrath

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The “something else” might be close to the original intention, but never exactly it.