Issue 114

India Johnson on artist books, activism, and a queer library collective in Iowa.

Robert Katz assembles found materials into tableaux inspired by stories from the Torah.

A cloud is suspended in the west
and squalls assail us from the south,
but no one can fathom what is now.

“Minority faiths in Britain have always started their architectural journey by adapting existing buildings and creating their religious spaces in improvised and ad hoc ways.

I watched through the window
sunlight performing nothing in particular while the radio announced
if someone were to die, we could not hold a funeral.

Where else but in fiction—both reading and writing it—can one try on so many different kinds of salvation?

I was trying to pray. How I yearned to pray! But I was both fascinated and repelled by this man’s presence.

On caring for an aging parent