Issue 68 | September 2021

Conversations: Shin Yu Pai and Jaimie Li

Sometime grieving is positive; sometimes the letting go is necessary.

Of Sense, Scents, and the Sensorium: Atomizer by Elizabeth A. I. Powell

Atomizer delves into the world of olfaction to investigate ways in which our instincts can lead us into danger.

Erasure, Culture, and the Working Class: On Cynthia Cruz’s Melancholia of Class

Cruz calls for working-class artists and individuals to claim their place in the class struggle.

Genre as Network & Hybridity’s State of Matter : An Utterance About Literary Terminology

Genre is definitionally malleable, in flux, molten, unfixed in time and space, and this creates chaos.

Memory Care: A Personal Essay

When my grandfather was losing his memory, my son was learning to talk. The world offered itself to my toddler in corners and syllables.