2017
Vol. VIII, No. 8, August 2017 (the final issue)
- El Paso Free Zone | Fiction — Michael Carson
- Love Letter from the Anthropocene | Essays — Maria Sledmere
- Peripatet | Essay — Grant Maierhofer
- wish images : asja, architectonics | Excerpt from My Red Heaven — Lance Olsen
- Dining at the Stockyard Trough | Excerpt from Lacking Character — Curtis White
- From Camp Marmalade | Poems — Wayne Koestenbaum
- Mother Tongue | On Doris Lessing — Victoria Best
- Notes Towards a Return | Essay — Fernando Sdrigotti
- Bees are the Overseers | Poem — Rikki Ducornet / with Allan Kausch Art
- Almost dies all the time | Short Story — Jowita Bydlowska
- Bill | Essay — Gary Garvin
- While contemplating suicide by the open window | Poems — Zsuzsa Takács, Translated by Erika Mihálycsa
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies | R. W. Gray’s Aidos
- Of Beginnings and Endings: Huck Finn and Tom Eliot | Essay — Patrick J. Keane
- Ode to Meaning, or The Joyful Apocalypse | The Art of Josh Dorman — Mary Kathryn Jablonski
- Two Sound Fetishists | Short Story — Kinga Fabó
- The Wrong Balcony | Review of Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall — Julie Larios
- Go Down To Hell | Boris Dralyuk Translates Poems by Alexander Tinyakov
- Uimhir a Cúig | Hollow: Short Story — Paul McVeigh
- Influence, a Day in the Life | Essay — Ralph Angel
- Slap Me With Mortality While I Am Strong | Poems — Ronna Bloom
- Valparaiso | Fiction — Jessica Sequeira
- The Wacky Beetle | Review of For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi — Natalia Sarkissian
- Romesick | Essay — Erika Mihálycsa
- The Writing on the Wall | Fiction — S. D. Chrostowska
- Division and Multiplication | On Reading Fiction — Warren Motte
- Channeling Jane | Jane Austen the Radical & Jane at Home — Laura Michele Diener
- Invisible Ink | Memoir — Paul Pines
- Of Discrimination, Transculturalism, and the Case for Integration | Essay — Montague Kobbé
- Numero Cinco | The Dead: Poem & Interview — Maria Rivera
- Tokens | Fiction — Bruce Stone
- Verisimilitude: The Moral Aesthetic of George Saunders — Nowick Gray
- Adua | Novel Excerpt — Igiaba Scego, Translated by Jamie Richards
- Go Back to What? | Poems — H. L. Hix
- What the Heart Can Bear | Tamil Love Poems from Kuruntokai — A. Anupama
- What It’s Like Living Here — Paul Lindholdt in Spokane
- Imaginary Cities | Book Excerpt — Darran Anderson
- These Are Places God Wouldn’t Go | Short Story — Chika Onyenezi
- Strandbeests | Poems — Stephanie Bolster
- Last Call | Numéro Cinq’s August Issue Preview
- Top of the Page | Touchstones
Vol VIII, No. 7, July 2017
- Man Behaving Badly | Henry Miller & Tropic of Cancer — Victoria Best
- Portland | Fiction — Gary Garvin
- A Conversation with Grant Maierhofer | Interview — Germán Sierra
- Don’t Be A Body | Short Story — Grant Maierhofer
- The Black Lace Veil | Short Story — Fleur Jaeggy, Translated by Gini Alhadeff
- Sacred Inertia | Review of I Am the Brother of XX & These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy — Joseph Schreiber
- Do Not Feed the Ism | Review of Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy — Andrew MacDonald
- methodical, intentional, mechanical | Adam Daily Art & Interview — Mary Kathryn Jablonski
- Desire, pain, pleasure | Essay — Stephen Brockbank
- Only & the Beast | Poems — Kate Hall
- What It’s Like Living Here — From Patrick Findler in Goris, Armenia
- The Death of the Perfect Sentence | Novel Excerpt — Rein Raud, Translated by Matthew Hyde
- The Great War | Poem — Sydney Lea
- The Other Side of Language | Poems — Linda E. Chown
- What It’s Like Living Here — Heather Ramsay in Ryder Lake, BC
- Numero Cinco | Please Insert Coin | Verse Excerpt — Ricardo Cázares
- Unspeakable | Fiction — Daniel Davis Wood
- A Sixties Childhood — Nowick Gray
- Keeping Promises | Review of one of us is wave one of us is shore by Geneva Chao — A. Anupama
- 36 Eddy Street | Childhood — Paul Perilli
- Research for the Larger Project | Poems — Maggie Smith
- From Ernesto | Novel — Umberto Saba, Estelle Gilson Translation
- An Incomplete Life | Review of Ernesto by Umberto Saba — Melissa Considine Beck
- Deep Listening | Poems and Prose — M. Travis Lane
- Perfection | Fiction — Richard Kelly Kemick
- Guard Against the Hours | Poems — Miles Waggener
- Childhood | The Foot of the Bed — Mary Brindley
- I am the big heart | Poems — S. E. Venart
- Through leaded panes | Memoir — Dawn Promislow
- Singles Bar for Zombies | Poems — Mark Sampson
- The Voice inside the Voice | Character Thought in the First Person Novel — Erin Lillo
- The Grand Design: Paintings of John Hampshire | Art & Text — Mary Kathryn Jablonski
- Pray, Hope, Dream | Poems — Richard Jackson
- Time Control in the Personal Essay — Rosanna Gargiulo
Vol VIII, No. 6, June 2017
- The Book of the Night | Nonfiction — Cynthia Huntington
- The Invented Part | Novel Excerpt — Rodrigo Fresán, Translated by Will Vanderhyden
- Something out of Nothing | Review of The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán — Benjamin Woodard
- Starts With a Bang… Ends In a Whisper | An Epistolary Romance — Sarah M. (∞) & Bernard Hœpffner (•)
- Consciously Amateurish | Review of The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan — Jason Lucarelli
- Caps | Short Story — Fernando Aramburu, Translated by Brendan Riley
- Uimhir a Cúig | Dunamon: Poems — Jane Clarke
- O Pioneer! | Review of 1944 Diary by Hans Keilson — Dorian Stuber
- Signs for Lost Children | Novel Excerpt — Sarah Moss
- A Place of Healing | Review of Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss — Rohan Maitzen
- The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep | Novel Excerpt — Steven Heighton
- Vertical Resonance | Review of The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep by Steven Heighton — Richard Farrell
- The Singular Elegance of Trees | Paintings — Katie DeGroot
- Waiting for the Turn | Poems — Erin Lillo
- Alice Munro’s “Baptising” & James Joyce’s “The Dead” | Plotting with Multiple Antagonists — Russell Working
- When Death Comes Knocking | Poems — Clint McCown
- Arising | Short Story — Josh Emmons
- Din of Silence | Review of A Moral Tale and Other Moral Tales by Josh Emmons — Michael Carson
- Memo from Brooklyn: The Novels of Jay Neugeboren — Domenic Stansberry
- Loosening the Elements of Cohesion | Poems — Darren Bifford
- Painter & Poet: Studies in Creativity — Victoria Best with Miranda Boulton & Kaddy Benyon
- Living in a Story | Review of Huck Out West by Robert Coover — Daniel Green
- Childhood — Mark Foss
- Ripper | Memoir — Trinie Dalton
- River Oaks | Fiction — Tom Howard
Vol VIII, No. 5, May 2017
- The Other in Oneself | Review of Compass by Mathias Énard — Frank Richardson
- Burning Boots | Short Story — Franci Novak, Translated by Olivia Hellewell
- Ascending with Grace | Poems — Michael Catherwood
- How Swiss Is It? | Review of Walks with Robert Walser by Carl Seelig — Dorian Stuber
- Uimhir a Cúig | The Beaching: Poems — Denise Blake
- Making the Void Fruitful: W. B. Yeats as Spiritual Seeker and Romantic Poet — Patrick J. Keane
- A Poem in Each Hand | Review of Fleda Brown’s The Woods Are On Fire — Julie Larios
- Atlantic Hotel | Novel Excerpt — João Gilberto Noll, Translated by Adam Morris
- Unbearable Transience of Being | Review of Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto Noll — Joseph Schreiber
- How Mia Learned to Dance | Fiction — John Bullock
- My First Job | Memoir — Cynthia Holz
- Another Dark Hour | Poems — Robert Currie
- Beowulf and Postmodernism | Excerpt from My Back Pages — Steven Moore
- Outliers & Explorers | Review of My Back Pages by Steven Moore — Jeff Bursey
- Geography of Bliss | Drawings and Etchings — Bonnie Baker
- Enduring Chaos | A Poem for our Times — Sydney Lea
- Behind the Moon: A Novel Excerpt — Madison Smartt Bell
- In Some Other Way | Review of Behind the Moon by Madison Smartt Bell — Linda Chown
- Donald Breckenridge’s Novel And Then, An Introduction — Douglas Glover
- Numero Cinco | Juan Rulfo’s Translator Douglas J. Weatherford Talks with Dylan Brennan
- Plot Structure in Three Short Stories | Essay on Conflict and Form — Michael Carson
- Of what is my love made? I ask | Ghazals — A. Anupama
Vol VIII, No. 4, April 2017
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Ringan Ledwidge’s Film for Massive Attack’s Voodoo in My Blood — R. W. Gray
- Hell’s too small, heaven too: Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva — Translated by Mary Jane White
- Introibo ad altare Dei | Poems — Patrick O’Reilly
- Kafka’s Absolute Minority, Homo vermes | Essay — Jeremy Brunger
- The Blank Page | Reading Isak Dinesen — Daniela Cascella
- Uimhir a Cúig | Angel’s Wing-Lashed Fire: Poems — Afric McGlinchey
- Frontier: Novel Excerpt — Can Xue, Translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping
- Life In a Northern Town | Review of Frontier by Can Xue — Joseph Schreiber
- Make Yourself Happy | Poems — Eleni Sikelianos
- Tentative Nature | Interview with Eleni Sikelianos — Julie Larios
- Making Myself Happy | Review of Make Yourself Happy by Eleni Sikelianos — Julie Larios
- Through Forest Strewn with Flowers We Come Home Our Hearts Melting Our Teeth Made of Thorns | Essay — Abby Frucht
- The Evil Gesture: Short Story — Russell Working
- Just Water, Water Everywhere | Review of Blue Field by Elise Levine — Benjamin Woodard
- Nonagon For The Dead Who Are Rising | A Polygon With Nine Sides All Opened — Quintan Ana Wikswo
- His Own Man | Harry Mathews — Warren Motte
- The End of Boredom | Review of Spoils by Brian Van Reet — Michael Carson
- Books of Wonder | Interview with Nance Van Winckel — Susan Aizenberg
- What happens to me now | Poems — Michelle Boisseau
- My First Job | The Hematology Clinic — Roberta Levine
- Pretending to Nature: Excerpt from I Don’t Think of You (Until I Do) | Fiction — Tatiana Ryckman
Vol. VIII, No. 3, March 2017
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Bison’s film for Bonobo’s “Kerala,” introduced by R. W. Gray
- Gnosticism: A Genesis — Rikki Ducornet
- A Wave, a Wash: Excerpts from a Novel — Ben Slotky
- The Long Dry | Novel Excerpt — Cynan Jones
- Love in the Time of Drought | Review of The Long Dry by Cynan Jones — Mark Sampson
- Abandonment Begets Abandonment: Review of Abandon Me by Melissa Febos — Carolyn Ogburn
- If… | Poems — Susan Elmslie
- Woods on Fire | Poems — Fleda Brown
- Bargain | Short Story — Sean Preston
- The Expression of Loss | Poems — Agustín Fernández Mallo, Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington
- Obsession | Interview with Carlos Fonseca — Jessica Sequeira
- Amulets, Talismans | The Ceramic Art of Michel Pastore & Evelyne Porret — Rikki Ducornet
- Dancing the Numbers: Review of The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee — Jason DeYoung
- Burning the Baby & Other Stories | Fiction — Kelly Cherry
- Cries of a mind…leaping out of its lodgings | Review of Drawn from Life, Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Linda E. Chown
- The Promise of Intimacy | ask anyone: The Poetry of Ruth Lepson — Timothy Ogene
- Dr. Griffitt’s Ginkgo | Poems — Maura Stanton
- The Poetry of Antimetathesis: Essay — Yannis Livadas
- Small Revolutions | Drawings — Anne Hirondelle
- The Avant-Pop Novels of J. P. McEvoy | Essay — Steven Moore
- Uimhir a Cúig | Bad Weather Days: Memoir — Amanda Bell
Vol. VIII, No. 2, February 2017
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Scott Cudmore’s film for Wintersleep’s “Amerika,” introduced by Sophie Lavoie
- Something Survives | Review of The Némirovsky Question by Susan Rubin Suleiman — Laura Michele Diener
- Evening Primrose: Poems — Allan Cooper
- Sealocked: Essay — Erika Mihálycsa
- Veritas: Short Story — Mark Jay Mirsky
- Sonnet’s Shakespeare: Poems — Sonnet L’Abbé
- Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism | Excerpt — Daniel Green
- A Pirate Critic | Review of Beyond the Blurb by Daniel Green — Jeff Bursey
- Uimhir a Cúig | Life Erupting: Excerpt from Four — Billy Mills
- Small Creatures: Fiction — Abigail Allen
- Threads from the Calais Refugee Crisis | Graphic Essay — Kate Evans
- I am with you in genocide | Poems — Sarah Scout
- The Boy and the Dog: Fiction — Jamaluddin Aram
- Coming: Excerpt — Jean-Luc Nancy with Adèle Van Reeth
- Do We Give A Fuck About Fucking Anymore? | Review of Coming by Jean-Luc Nancy — Melissa Considine Beck
- Numero Cinco | Attached to Silence: Poems — Ingrid Valencia
- Dystopian Utopias: Case Studies — Julie Trimingham
- Divinity in the Sunlight | Paintings — Ramón Alejandro
Vol. VIII, No. 1, January 2017
- Heart of Darkness — Gary Garvin
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies | Inga Birgisdóttir’s “Varúð” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Necessary Truths | Review of Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías — Frank Richardson
- Not in Noah’s Flood: Poems in Translation — Marjan Strojan
- Review of Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami—Carolyn Ogburn
- Ms. Hicks In Hell: Fiction — David Huddle
- Carving the Heavens’ Bones: from Glasshouses | Poems — Stuart Barnes
- The Philosopher’s Progress | Short Story — Noah R. Gataveckas
- Like Kafka’s Ape | Poems — Mary di Michele
- Renato After Alba: Novel Excerpt — Eugene Mirabelli
- Story Hour at the Monkey House Bar | Poems — Alison Prine
- Burlesques Of Togetherness: Review of Assisted Living by Gary Lutz — Jason Lucarelli
- Three Questions for Donald Hall | Interview — Allan Cooper
- Entering the Golden Room | Review of The Selected Poems of Donald Hall — Allan Cooper
- Reflections of a Walking Ruin | Fiction — John Madera
- Windy, With Clouds Breaking | Poems — Kathy Fagan
- Late Afternoon with Shadows Lengthening: Memoir — Laura Michele Diener
- Among the Dead and Dreaming: Novel Excerpt — Samuel Ligon
- Ever-Present Loss: Review of Among the Dead and Dreaming by Samuel Ligon—Dawn Raffel
- Boy Turns into a Yam: Short Story — Laura Fine-Morrison
- Uimhir a Cúig | Trust in Me: Fiction — Mia Gallagher
- The Relic of an Instant: Art — Mark Reamy