2013

Vol. IV, No. 12, December 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: David Cronenberg’s “Camera,” Introduced by Jon Dewar
• Jesse Emma and the Prime Minister: Letter from Saskatchewan — Byrna Barclay
• The Reclamation of Ebenezer Scrooge: Sermon — Hilary Mullins
• The Wild Dogs of Bagan: Travel Essay — Genni Gunn
• Nine Lives: Reunion in Paris | Fiction — Marty Gervais
• Incline My Stubborn Heart: Poems — Sydney Lea
• Say Nothing Saw Wood: Fiction — Joel Thomas Hynes
• A Dream Within a Dream Within a Dream: A Review of The Fata Morgana Books by Jonathan Littell — Steven Axelrod
• The Object of the Object: Art & Interview with Lynda Lowe — Nance Van Winckel
• Frost at Dawn: Poem — William Olsen
• Strange Currency, Faulty Love: A Review of Irmgard Keun’s Gilgi — Adam Segal
• Sentences Are Like Home for Me, Even a Wilderness: Interview with Joseph McElroy — Jason DeYoung
• Uimhir a Cúig | On Being There and Not Being There; or Cotard’s Delusion, A Case Study: Text & Video — Kevin Barry & Louise Manifold
• Cairo: Novel Excerpt — Louis Armand
• Visual Thinking and Cognitive Exploration: Essay & Images — Paul Forte

Vol. IV, No. 11, November 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Ryan McGinley’s Varud, Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Beauty & the Brothel of Illustration: An Impractical Guide to Making Art | Essay & Paintings — Stephen May
• Caves and The Void: Review of The Combover by Adrián N. Bravi — Natalie Helberg
• Borrowing Light from the Moon: Review of Urban Tumbleweed by Harryette Mullen — A. Anupama
• Everything Happens As It Does: Novel Excerpt — Albena Stambolova
• I Just Met A Gaze Named Maria: Review of Everything Happens As It Does by Albena Stambolova — Jacob Glover
• Charlie Tallulah: Fiction — Gerard Beirne
• The Fiery Alphabet: Novel Excerpt — Diane Lefer
• En Français | 10 ans, pas méchant: Fiction — André Marois
• Rik’s Fish: Fish Art & Mashups — Rik Nelson
• On Earth: Fiction — Victoria Redel
• Outside the Known Limit | Review of Victoria Redel’s Make Me Do Things — Richard Farrell
• Clare’s Fiddle: The John Clare Poems — Jordan Smith
• On Looking Into and Beyond the Wordsworths’ Daffodils: An Intrinsic and Contextual Reading  — Patrick J. Keane
• The New Panopticon: A Review of Dave Eggers’ The Circle — Steven Axelrod
• Fame Is A Mask That Eats The Face: A Review of Salinger by David Shields & Shane Salerno — Timothy Dugdale
• Structure & Destruction: The Paintings of Tim Deverell — Interview by Y. M. Whelan

Vol. IV, No. 10, October 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Love at First Sight, or The Problem of Beginnings — R. W. Gray
• A Remark on October 21st 1999: Fiction — Ror Wolf
• Merry Fractals of Uncertainty | Review of Ror Wolf’s Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions — Richard Farrell
• Unhinged Articulation: Essay — Ralph Angel
• I Never Knew How To Thank You: Poems — Bunkong Tuon
• Night Work: Fiction — Robert Miner
• More Terrifying To Stay: A Review of D. W. Wilson’s Ballistics — Debra Martens
• Tell Her She Has Strong Legs: Fiction — Greg Gerke
• An Exercise In Memory For The Non-Homeless And Especially Those Laboring Women Whose Contractions Have Shrunk To Under Two Minutes Apart: Fiction — Cynthia Sample
• Waiting to Pounce: Review of Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin — Benjamin Woodard
• The Wind and the Clock: Poems — Betsy Sholl
• The Story Begins in Death: A Review of Javier Marias’ The Infatuations — Laura K. Warrell
• Undersung | Robert Francis, Not Robert Frost — Julie Larios
• The Dance of Entanglement: A Review of Marguerite Duras’ L’Amour — Natalia Sarkissian
• Mrs. Ragnetti and the Spider: Essay — Sydney Lea
• The Cloven Lychee Nut: Poems & Interview with Julie Bruck — Ann Ireland
• Numéro Cinq Does High Fashion: Masquerade in Milan — Natalia Sarkissian
• The Internet Is Trying to Kill You (Probably): Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge — Bruce Stone
• Excavation and Reconstruction: An Interview with Nance Van Winckel — Ross McMeekin
• The Dead White Male You Should Read: Three New Books on Borges — Tom Faure

Vol. IV, No. 9. September 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Daryl Wein’s “Unlocked,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• The Novel as a Poem | Essay — Douglas Glover
• Cathedrals: Poems — Marty Gervais
• Václav Havel’s Little Owl: The Poetics of Dissidence — David Celone
• Light is Decisive: Photographs — Abdallah Ben Salem d’Aix
• Abused in the Alps: Text & Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
• Small Margins: Review of Pinwheel by Marni Ludwig — A. Anupama
• Chin on Palm on Elbow: Listening to Vladimír Godár — Lawrence Sutin
• The Wordsworthian Sources of Emersonian “Hope” and “Light”: Essay — Patrick J. Keane
• Love Song for a City of the Dead: A Review of The Mehlis Report by Rabee Jaber — Steven Axelrod
• Let Us Imagine Lost Love: Part One | Fiction — Robert Day
• Turning the Page: Essay/Community Activism — Diane Lefer
• The Marrakech Poems From I Dream of Blood — Boel Schenlaer
• Unbearable Beauty: A Review of Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai — Eric Foley
• The Golden Horn | Photographs of Vladivostok — Valentin Trukhanenko
• The Roommate: Vladivostok & the Ghost of Mandelstam | Essay — Russell Working
• What It’s Like Living Here — Stephen Sparks in San Francisco
• Knee-deep in a Sea of Tears: Hybrid Drawings — China Marks
• Crow Ceremony & Stumble: Dervish Essays — Robert Vivian

Vol. IV, No. 8, August 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Dash Shaw’s “Seraph,” Introduced by Nicholas Humphries
• The Instructor: Novel Excerpt — Ann Ireland
• Squirt: Monologue — John Arthur Sweet
• The Art of the Nude: Drawings — Bruce Hiscock
• Through the Night: Novel Excerpt — Stig Sæterbakken
• Hope Turned to Dust: A Review of Through the Night by Stig Sæterbakken — Jason DeYoung
• Of Literary Bondage: Essay — Andrew Gallix
• Using Everything: Pattern Making in Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha,” Robert Walser’s “Nothing at All,” and Sam Lipsyte’s “The Wrong Arm” | Essay — Jason Lucarelli
• Jungle Girl: Letter from Saskatchewan (Photo, Micromemoir & Fiction) — Byrna Barclay
• Pacific Walkers | Poems — Nance Van Winckel
• Kissing: Essay — Diana Whitney
• What It’s Like Living Here — Yeniffer Pang-Chung in Depok, Cisompet, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
• The True, the Terrible, and the Shocking! Early 20th Century Mexican Broadsheet Art — Brendan Riley
• Chance Encounters of Literary Kind: Friends are Never Even: Jack (aka) John Barth — Robert Day
• The Transfiguration of Don Sheehan: Essay — Hilary Mullins
• Undersung | George Starbuck and the Heavy Burden of Light Verse — Julie Larios
• On Reverence: Essay — Richard Farrell
• Feeding the Lake: Interview with David Jauss — Ross McMeekin
• Minakshi Meets her Shiva: Poems — A. Anupama
• Shopping While Black: Thoughts after Trayvon Martin — Laura K. Warrell

Vol IV, No. 7, July 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Zombie Longings: Bruce LaBruce’s Otto, or Up With Dead People — R. W. Gray
• A Short Story of Shame: Novel Excerpt — Angel Igov
• On the Road Again (or, how shame informs identity): Review of Angel Igov’s A Short Tale of Shame — Tom Faure
• On the Genealogy of Style: Marx, Nietzsche, Lacan — Noah R. Gataveckas
• Authorless Books, Mutated Goats & Ark Codex: Interview With Derek White — Nance Van Winckel
• Anatomy of a Night: Novel Excerpt — Anna Kim
• The Dying Spread Like A Plague: Review of Anna Kim’s Anatomy of a Night — Eric Foley
• From School of Flowers: The John Clare Poems — Jeanette Lynes
• Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: Sarah Palin and Coriolanus — Robert Day
• A Brief History of Yes: Novel Excerpt — Micheline Aharonian Marcom
• Language of the Heart: A Review of Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s A Brief History of Yes — Jason DeYoung
• My God, what have I done? | Interview with Ethan Rutherford — Benjamin Woodard
• BRIGHT: Tobacco Butts, Behind the Needle, and Baleful Tales of Barn and Bunkhouse | Poems — Amber Homeniuk
• Birthday Girl: A Story of the Boston Marathon Bombing | Fiction — Laura K. Warrell
• Father: Essay — Steven Axelrod
• On the Occasions that Lula Sought an Answer from her Mother’s Bible Concordance: Fiction — Cynthia Sample
• The Personal Essay and the Pain of Experience: Communicating to the Broadest Possible Audience | Craft Essay — Sophfronia Scott
• Now and Then: The Binary Dimension of the Authorial Voice in Memoir | Craft Essay — Susan Hall

Vol. IV, No. 6, June 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Chips Rafferty, Suvla Bay, the Australian Light Horse and The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda — Douglas Glover
• Where’s Bob? | Novel Excerpt — Ann Ireland
• Cariatide de Papier: Watercolor Diary by Anne Francey — Introduced by Mary Kathryn Jablonski
• Stratum & Substratum: Poems — John B. Lee
• Wildest Dreams: Play — Don Druick
• Peru: Novel Excerpt — Gordon Lish
• Obsessed By Success, Failure, and Redemption | An Interview with Steven Schwartz — Jacqueline Kharouf
• Small Things Define: A Profile of Tess Wiley — Ian Colford
• Ottawa Confidential: Fiction — Greg Hollingshead
• Mystical Attention | Review of The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi — Jacob Glover
• Transformed Volumes | Exhibition of Artist’s Bookworks — Introduced by Paul Forte
• The Things That Matter: Review of All That Is by James Salter — Richard Farrell
• Sirens & The Red Hair District: Paintings — Leon Rooke
• Drenched in Venice: Text & Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
• Character Gradation and Coherence: An Examination of Novels by Jane Austen, Anne Tyler & Mark Haddon — Robin Oliveira
• Red is the Colour of Mourning: Father Poems — Byrna Barclay

Vol. IV, No. 5, May 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Wes Anderson’s “Hotel Chevalier,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Zola’s Horse: Using a Reporter’s Techniques to Strengthen Fiction and Creative Nonfiction — Russell Working
• Revisiting Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet — Paul M. Curtis
• The Dark Speech of Silence Laboring: Osip Mandelstam’s Poems & Translations — Betsy Sholl
• Elephants Can Remember| Childhood — Hilary Mullins
• Desecration & Reconciliation in Shirley Falls, Maine: Review of The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout — Steven Axelrod
• A Mother I Cannot Find Again: Memoir — Robert Day
• Graffiti Art: Photographs — David Helwig
• Grade | Short Fiction — Stephen Henighan
• Disciples of Friction: Poems — Jordan Smith
• Mark Twain, Nietzsche, and Terrible Truths that can Set Us Free — Patrick J. Keane
• Underground Man Revisited | Review of My Struggle: Book Two, A Man In Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard — Eric Foley
• The Connoisseurship of the Word | Interview with David Ferry — Peter Mishler
• From Smallness to Greatness: The Forgotten Poetry of Lorine Niedecker — Anne Loecher
• Use & Beauty: Furniture as Art — Leonard Bellanca
• What It’s Like Living Here — Donald Quist in Bangkok
• Albatross: Fiction — Simon Fruelund translated from Danish by K. E. Semmel
• Nabokov’s Exoneration: The Genesis and Genius of Lolita — Bruce Stone

Vol. IV, No. 4, April 2013

• The Art of the Book & the Book as Art: Numéro Cinq’s April Issue
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Woodkid’s “I Love You,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• The General Indifference of Sand: Poems — Jean Portante Translated by Pierre Joris
• Soundings: Poems & Photographs — Richard Jackson
• The Cosmic Conversation, A Note on Plato’s Timaeus — Jacob Glover
• End of the Fire Cult: Fiction — Angela Woodward
• Seeing Jane and Don | A Visit With Artist Jane Buyers & Playwright Don Druick — Ann Ireland
• Sweet to my heart | Translations of Tamil Love Poems — A. Anupama
• Poetry’s Om | Essay — A. Anupama
• Laundromats, Lucky Charms and the Labors of Herakles | Review of Anne Carson’s Red Doc> — Richard Farrell
• Leconte de Lisle’s Les Roses d’Ispahan | Translation & Performance — Marilyn McCabe
• Essay as Evolutionary Advantage (après Borges) — Patrick Madden
• A Short Film About My Father | Fiction — rob mclennan
• Laughing at Despair: Review of The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte — Benjamin Woodard
• Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: John Ashbery and Tadeusz Różewicz — Robert Day
• How Should A Writer Be? | Interview With Sheila Heti — Jill Margo
• Books as Art, Books as Sculpture, Sculpture as a Poem: Marilyn R. Rosenberg Interviewed by Nance Van Winckel

Vol. IV, No. 3, March 2013

Vol. IV, No. 2, February 2013

• Marty and Ed: Fiction — Edward Maitino
• Be It Resolved: Create More, Worry Less | Collages — Diane Schoemperlen
• Pony and Graveyard: A Dream of the Flesh — Sydney Lea
• Wounds & Doubles: Poems — Yahia Lababidi
• Getting Down to the Algorithm: An Interview with Alexander MacLeod — Benjamin Woodard
• On Fathers, Losses, and Other Influences: Essay — Bunkong Tuon
• Can the Devil Speak True? Paintings — Deborah Zlotsky
• Reflection: Photograph & Poem — John Haney & Amanda Jernigan
• What if God is One of Us? A Note on Derrida — Jacob Glover
• Self-Control: Novel Excerpt — Stig Sæterbakken
• Our Hideous Decorum: A Review of Stig Sæterbakken’s Self-Control — Jason DeYoung
• The Consecution of Gordon Lish: An Essay on Form and Influence — Jason Lucarelli
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Alice Winocour’s “Kitchen” — R. W. Gray
• Triptych: Fiction — Rosalie Morales Kearns
• Symbols: Forest of Ambiguity — Maggie Kast
• Ghost City: What It’s Like Living Here — Joe Milan in Seoul, Korea

Vol. IV, No. 1, January 2013

•  Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Nicholas Humphries and Meagan Hotz’s “Little Mermaid” — R. W. Gray
• The Days Run Away: Poems — Robert Currie
• Someday Project: Drawings/Paintings — Gina Occhiogrosso
• Haruspex: Poems — Peter Mishler
• The Absolute Nonsense of Daniil Kharms: Translation — Alex Cigale
• Sleepless: Poem — Jane Eaton Hamilton
• The Ambiguous Legacy of Nietzsche: Essay — Patrick J. Keane
• Smoke Is Still Rising: Fiction — Taiaiake Alfred
• The 19th Century & Milan’s Duomo: A Collage of Impressions and Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
• My Body’s Devotion: Poems — Ralph Angel
• Dogfights: Fiction — Richard Farrell
• The Exile and Return of Poetry: Essay — Ralph Angel
• Childhood — Tiara Winter-Schorr