2016

Vol. VII, No. 12, December 2016

• Into the Lollipop Light: Poem — Rikki Ducornet
• Invocation of the Unicorn: Poem — Cassidy McFadzean
• A Shadow Text: Review of The Book of Things by Ilhan Berk — D. M. Spitzer
• Hell and Back | Review of American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag — Melissa Considine Beck
• Cat: Short Story — Dawn Promislow
• Notebooks of Jean Mongeau: Poems by Pierre Nepveu — Translated by Donald Winkler
• My Life in Clothes & Books, a Memoir — Karen Mulhallen
• While the Cat’s Away | Review of The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika Kapur — Natalia Sarkissian
• Why We’re Doing Art in Today’s World: Interview with Composer David Smooke — Carolyn Ogburn
• Uimhir a Cúig | Excerpts from Stealing Life: Memoir — Eamonn Sheehy
• Lecture the Lemurs: Poems — Russell Bennetts and Rauan Klassnik
• Loving: A Novel Excerpt — Henry Green
• Always Hinting | Review of Loving by Henry Green — Dorian Stuber
• Numero Cinco | Poems by Elsa Cross Plus Interview with Translator Anamaría Crowe Serrano
• Opferlingen: Fiction — S.D. Chrostowska
• Evolution of Lust: Poems — Hilda Raz
• In the Antechamber of Hallucination: Art & Prose — J. Karl Bogartte
• Mad for Sorrow: Time, the Demon, & Being (at One’s Wits’ End) in the Cloud of Unknowing — Nicola Masciandaro

Vol. VII, No. 11, November 2016

• Mad Mad Mitfords | Review of The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson — Laura Michele Diener
• She Will Not Have Crying Jags | Review of Jen George’s The Babysitter at Rest — Benjamin Woodard
• Renderings of Oblique Strategies: Poems — Leslie Ullman
• A Nobel Prize and a Glock: Essay on Neoliberalism & Chicago — Jeremy Brunger
• It’s All Signal: Review of Nell Zink’s Nicotine — Carolyn Ogburn
• Numero Cinco | Maracuyá: Fiction — Agustín Cadena
• Level, Headstrong & Balls: Prose Poems — Mark Cox
• I’m Alive I Tell Myself: Fiction — Jared Daniel Fagen
• The Sublime: Review of Mary Ruefle’s My Private Property — Lawrence Sutin
• Hell is (Researching) Other People — Mary Brindley
• Uimhir a Cúig | The County Manager: Short Story — Dave Lordan
• Stilled Life/Frozen Motion: Ceramic Art — Anne Hirondelle
• Novel Explosives: A Novel Excerpt—Jim Gauer
• The Encyclopedic Novel: Review of Jim Gauer’s Explosives — Jeff Bursey
• Panorama: A Novel Excerpt — Dušan Šarotar
• At the Crossing of Words, Landscape & Memory: Review of Dušan Šarotar’s Panorama — Joseph Schreiber
• Trakl’s Daughter: Poems — Pamela Stewart
• Making Meaning: Italian Journeys — Genese Grill

Vol. VII, No. 10, October 2016

• Numero Cinco: Excavating Stridentopolis — Joshua Neuhouser
• Conference Hall: Short Story — Zsuzsa Takács Translated by Erica Mihálycsa
• Satan, Bring Me My Guitar: Poems — Okla Elliott
• Housing for the Rest of Us, A Non-Manifesto — Gary Garvin
• Memory Dance: Review of Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History — Frank Richardson
• Diversity, Politics & Music: Interview with Brazilian Composer Camilo Carrara
• The Gloaming: Novel Excerpt — Melanie Finn
• Pilgrim’s Journey: Review of Melanie Finn’s The Gloaming — Mark Sampson
• Cloudwall: Short Story — Germán Sierra
• Uimhir a Cúig | Barbaric Tales: Poems — Catherine Walsh
• Working for the Feds: Six “Hint” Fictions — Michael Martone
• The Flat Third Dimension: Matthew Olzmann’s Contradictions in the Designs — Patrick O’Reilly
• Oh Hail, Mary, Hail: The Long Complicated History of an American Convent — Laura Michele Diener
• Sacred Geometry: Essay & Art — Qwul`thilum (Dylan Thomas)

Vol. VII, No. 9, September 2016

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jon Dewar’s “Hypothermia” | Introduction & Interview — Matt Rogers
• One Man One Vote: Short Story — Lewis Parker
• Great Expectations: Review of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto — Frank Richardson
• Numero Cinco | Happiness: Two Stories — Mónica Lavín Translated by Patricia Dubrava
• The Inexpressible Moment: Review of Garden Time by W. S. Merwin — Allan Cooper
• Riding the Black Waves: Poems — Susan Aizenberg
• The Path of the Jaguar: Novel Excerpt—Stephen Henighan
• Black Bread: Novel Excerpt — Emili Teixidor
• In the Shadow of Civil War: Review of Black Bread by Emili Teixidor — Joseph Schreiber
• Uimhir a Cúig | A Junkyard Full of Flowers: Poems — Paul McMahon
• From Les Fleurs du Mal: Baudelaire — Translated by A. Anupama
• Volcano: Short Story — Bojan Louis
• White Quetzal (from Orlando to Nice): Poem — Rikki Ducornet
• Anamorphosis: Art — Dave Kennedy
• Hypo: Fiction — Erika Mihálycsa
• Gooka-mol: Poems — Sydney Lea
• Naked: Novel Excerpt — Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• The Geometry Of Breaking Up: Review Of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Naked — Jason Lucarelli
• Baptize Me in Darkness: Poems — Denise Evans Durkin
• An Australian Childhood: One Fine Day — Elizabeth Thomas

Vol. VII, No. 8, August 2016

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Vincent Haycock’s “What Kind of Man,” Introduced by R W Gray
• Letters to the Universe: From Rilke’s Duino Elegies — Translated by Allan Cooper
• Yellow Crane: Poem — Susan Gillis
• Night Train to Venice: Poems — Theodore Deppe
• Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador: Fiction — Horacio Castellanos Moya
• House of Lunatics | Review of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador by Horacio Castellanos Moya — Benjamin Woodard
• The Deserts and the Seas: Zazil Alaíde Collins | Poems and Interview — Dylan Brennan
• The Fatal Problem | Review of Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry — Carolyn Ogburn
• Slow Dancing: Poems — Daniel Lawless
• Emerson and Self-Reliance: Paradoxical Idea, Ambiguous Legacy — Patrick J. Keane
• The Truth About Death: Short Story — Evan Lavender-Smith
• Uimhir a Cúig | Speed My Slowing Heart: Poems — Michael Ray
• Tower of Fools: Fiction — Margaret Nowaczyk
• Why Do We Need to Think We Agree on Reality? — Lawrence Sutin
• Crossing Water: Memoir — Cynthia Flood
• The Habit of Being Passionate: Dorothy Day’s Radical Mysticism — Laura Michele Diener
• At Last, the Reading Public Gets the Trees It Deserves: Fiction — Curtis White
• Brightfellow: A Novel Excerpt — Rikki Ducornet
• A Dubious Boy: A Review of Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet—Jason DeYoung

Vol. VII, No. 7, July 2016

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Michael V. Smith’s “Wolf Lake” — R. W. Gray
• Sleep and Disorder: Poems — Jordan Smith
• Life in the Court of Matane: Fiction — Eric Dupont
• A Very Funny Novel: Eric Dupont’s Life in the Court of Matane — Joseph Schreiber
• Uimhir a Cúig | Primordial Irishwomen & Other Texts — Mary Byrne
• First Kiss: Very Short Stories — John Gould
• When Night Becomes a Virgin: Poems — Yannis Livadas
• My First Job — Mary H. Auerbach Rykov
• Shipwrecks: Poems — Kinga Fabó translated by Gabor G. Gyukics
• Killer Whale: in Black and White — Julie Trimingham
• bounding for birds : mathematics | Fiction — Lance Olsen
• CRAZY HAPPY: Painted Scrolls by Rikki Ducornet & Sculpture by Margie McDonald
• On Music & the Sublime: Interview with Composer Eric Moe — Carolyn Ogburn
• The Householder-Ascetic Contrast in Anita Desai’s Fiction: Essay — Anu Kumar
• Sea of Rains: Poems — Mary Kathryn Jablonski
• Exercises — Tracy Proctor, Megan Okkerse, Sheela Clary & Whitney Lee
• Vaseline Buddha: Novel Excerpt — Jung Young Moon
• Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously: Review of Jung Young Moon’s Vaseline Buddha — Jason DeYoung

Vol. VII, No. 6, June 2016

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: R.W. Gray’s zack & luc | Introduction & Interview — Michael V. Smith
• Fat for Art’s Sake: Review of Benjamin Hale’s The Fat Artist — Mark Sampson
• Sixty Steps from Yale: Essay — Sydney Lea
• Dinner with the Fisher King — Paul Pines
• Murdered by Women: Short Story — A D Jameson
• Aspirin: Fiction — Julián Herbert | Translated by Brendan Riley
• What Lies Beneath: Review of Dorthe Nors’ So Much For Winter — Jeff Bursey
• Missing Persons: The Novels of Patrick Modiano — Victoria Best
• A Bomb at the Book Launch: Poems — George Szirtes
• A Master Set Loose in a Small Space: Review of Thomas Bernhard’s Goethe Dies — Joseph Schreiber
• Agonal and Preterminal: Poem — Sharon McCartney
• Love & the Loveless: Classic Tamil Poems — Translated by A. Anupama
• Sea Wolf Speaks from the Studio: Music & Interview — Ann Ireland
• Can You Hear Me Thinking?: Poems — David Helwig
• Strangers in a Strange Land: Lynne M. Browne Photographs & Interview — Mary Kathryn Jablonski
• Funny Hat: Short Story — Jowita Bydlowska
• Ghosts in the Moonlight: Poems — David Ishaya Osu
• At the English Cemetery: Letter from Florence — Laura Michele Diener

Vol. VII, No. 5, May 2016

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Yulia Mahr’s “Path 5 (delta)” — R W Gray
• The Mystery of Julot Calcascieu: Poems & Note — Greg Mulcahy
• The Real Thing Was Quite Homely: Review of White Sands by Geoff Dyer — Jason DeYoung
• My Alphabet Soul A to H: Poems—Betsy Sholl
• Forever an Unknown Country: Review of Quiet Creature on the Corner by João Gilberto Noll—Joseph Schreiber
• Plugging the causal breach: Short Story — Mary Byrne
• Music in the Anthropocene: Interview with Composer Nathan Currier — Carolyn Ogburn
• Some Schemes Shouldn’t Work But Do: The Poetry of Karen Solie — David Wojahn
• What It’s Like Living Here — Shawn Selway in Hamilton, Ontario
• Altered States: Poems from This Being — Ingrid Ruthig
• Uimhir a Cúig | The Vogue: Novel Excerpt — Eoin McNamee
• Transit of Venus: Short Story — Zsófia Bán Translated by Erika Mihálycsa
• Labels from the Field Museum: Poems — Denise Low
• Completing the Mies van der Rohe Brick Country House, An Odyssey — Gary Garvin
• Making Meaning I: The Categorical Imp of the Perverse — Genese Grill
• Leaving Eden: Poems — Momina Masood
• My Brother: Fiction — Gabriel Josipovici
• Apple and Pear Trees — Tomoé Hill

Vol. VII, No. 4, April 2016

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: James W. Griffiths’s “Room 8,” Introduced by R W Gray
• Recovery’s Rhythm and Blues — Thomas Simpson with Goran Simić in Bosnia
• Remembrance Day In Patton-Town: Autobiography — Pierre Joris
• Happy Shores: America as Metaphor — Warren Motte
• Undersung | Michelangelo’s Aching Back — Julie Larios
• Fielding Dawson Portrait of Cy Twombly: Poem — Ruth Lepson
• Dirt: A Love Story — Barbara Richardson, John Keeble & Jeanne Rogers
• Wait With Us: Review of The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga — Benjamin Woodard
• The Reactive: Novel Excerpt — Masande Ntshanga
• Safe Journey Home: Óscar Oliva Poems & Commentary — Translated by Dylan Brennan and Keith Payne
• Calm: Short Story — Cynthia Flood
• The State of Latino Lit: Writers in Conversation with Jonathan Marcantoni
• Slouching towards Anarchy — Patrick J. Keane
• I Have Revealed It Here, Just In Case Anybody Ever Cares: Review of Patrick Madden’s Sublime Physick — John Proctor
• Three Poems from Fuchsia — Mahtem Shiferraw
• After the Indian Wars: Paintings by Kay O’Rourke, Texts by Many Including Students from Spokane’s Salish School—Nance Van Winckel
• Call & Response: Poems & Essays from Traversings — Richard Jackson & Robert Vivian

Vol. VII, No. 3, March 2016

• Passive Rebellion: Review of Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs by Lina Wolff—Mark Sampson
• Unnatural Light: Review of Party Headquarters by Georgi Tenev—Natalia Sarkissian
• Spare My Wrists : Review of A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa — Jeff Bursey
• A General Theory of Oblivion: Novel Excerpt — José Eduardo Agualusa
• What It’s Like Living Here: Walking in Madeira — Julian Hanna
• Second Chances: Review of The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck — Frank Richardson
• The Shadow’s Skin: Selections — Joël Gayraud Translated by S. D. Chrostowska
• Tentative Beginnings: Fiction — Alan Cunningham
• A Strange and Haunting Beauty: Review of What About This, Collected Poems of Frank Stanford—Allan Cooper
• Thoughts on Sam Savage who is in Hospice Awaiting the Inevitable—Jeff Bursey
• Worlds in the Detail: A Review of Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton — Natalie Helberg
• Uimhir a Cúig | Interview & Poems — Adrian Rice & Matthew Rice
• Amour Fou / Can’t Help It: Poems — Karen Mulhallen
• A Boy Falling out of the Sky: Memoir — Richard Farrell
• If the Dead Cry Out: Poems — Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr.
• A. J. Greimas in Alice Munro’s “Jakarta”: Essay on Story Structure — Richard Skinner
• Succubus Bringing a Shitstorm into Rear View Mirror: Art—Roger Weingarten
• Random Walks: Interview with Composer Ivan Seng — Carolyn Ogburn

Vol. VII, No. 2, February 2016

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Darwin Serink’s “ABAN + KHORSHID,” Introduced by R W Gray
• A Human Situation: Review of The Happy Marriage by Tahar Ben Jelloun — Jason DeYoung
• What a River Remembers of its Course: Fiction — Gerard Beirne
• A Literary Incendiary Device: Review of Matches by S.D. Chrostowska — Jeff Bursey
• Balcony for Dreamers: What it’s like living in Palermo, Italy — Erika Mihálycsa
• The Anxiety of Laughter: An Essay on Reading Dante — Mark Jay Mirsky
• All the World’s a Stage: Review of Rafael Chirbes’ On the Edge — Joseph Schreiber
• The Bee Orchid: Fiction/Memoir — Donald Breckenridge
• Always, somewhere, there will be a chance of rain: Poems — Jacob McArthur Mooney
• Have I Come Clean Enough?: Review of Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams — Jason Lucarelli
• The eye, the hand, the picture plane: Sean Riley Art & Interview — Mary Kathryn Jablonski
• An Australian Childhood: What Ever Happened to Grace Darling? — Elizabeth Thomas
• Uimhir a Cúig | What Brought You Here? Memoir — Áine Greaney
• All of Seeing, All of Hearing: Fiction — Gregory Howard
• Constellating The Net: A Quantum Fairytale—Paul Pines
• Blake, Nietzsche, Wilde, and Yeats: Contraries, Anti-Selves, and the Truth of Masks — Patrick J. Keane

Vol. VII, No. 1, January 2016

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: hitRECord’s “Adieu,” Introduced by R W Gray
• Farm Crisis Kid: A Midwest Childhood — Kali VanBaale
• Scent and Memory: An Olfactory Life — Tomoé Hill
• From Mexico | Apothecary Poems & Interview: Javier Taboada — Dylan Brennan
• A Close Look | George Herbert’s “Love (III)” — Julie Larios
• The Frogless Dark: Peering into the Hermit Kingdom — Russell Working
• Slim Twig: Profile — Ann Ireland
• A Hero of our Time: Fiction — Lewis Parker
• Reply to Closing Arguments: Poems — George Fetherling
• a Bee I do Become: Essay — Julie Trimingham
• Deep Media Fiction: Essay — Germán Sierra
• Uimhir a Cúig | A River of Familiars: Poems — Afric McGlinchey
• A Survivor’s Guide to Engine Failure at 35,000 Feet: Fiction — Lee D. Thompson
• Memo from City Lights: On Leonard Gardner and Fat City — Domenic Stansberry