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Issue 121 | Summer 2024

The cover features work by Alyssa Coffin, who built an earth chamber from woven branches and snow in the woods in Helsinki, Finland, and invited viewers inside. Also inside: Katie Ford on ADHD and the myth of the good reader. Phil Klay on Russian dissident fiction by Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Andrey Platonov. Fiction by Gábor T. Szántó on gentrification in Budapest (translated from Hungarian); Leah McMichael on a fourth-century family of saints; and Anzhelina Polonskaya on lockdown, love, and regret (translated from Russian). Performance artist Kiki McGrath’s open letter to Julian of Norwich. In the Studio: the mysterious guardian portraits of Devon DeJardin. A conversation with Bruce Beasley on poetry, faith, and science. George Choundas on the murders next door. Annaka Saari on singer-songwriter Ethel Cain, Ingmar Bergman, HBO’s Barry, and the weight of purity culture. Yudel Huberman on the secret life of a bog. Poems by L.S. Klatt, Suphil Lee Park, Robert Fernandez, Dan Beachy-Quick, and more.

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On the cover: Alyssa Coffin. Silence Chamber (detail), 2022–23. Woven-branch structure, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by the artist.

VISUAL ART

A Chamber in the Earth

Alyssa Coffin

VISUAL ART

In the Studio 

Bernd Haussmann

Contents

EDITORIAL

Guest Editorial: Katie Ford, My Inmost Book

FICTION

Leah McMichael, The Sun in Slender Glass

Gábor T. Szántó, This Is the Gate of the Lord; the Righteous Shall Enter Through It

Anzhelina Polonskaya, The Dead Zone

VISUAL ART

Alyssa Coffin, A Chamber in the Earth

Devon DeJardin, In the Studio

Kiki McGrath, The Woman in the House

Bernd Haussmann, In the Studio

ESSAY

Yudel Huberman, The Bog

George Choundas, The Portion and the Sword

Jessica Blatt, Smoke

Michael Copperman, Valediction

Issue 121 Discussion Questions

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