Issue 129 (Summer 2026)
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Issue 128 | Spring 2026
Image issue 128 includes work on health, illness, medicine, and the body:
- Leila Chatti on three films on the struggle to conceive a child
- Emily Rapp Black on Carl Shuker’s dystopian novel of medical editing
- A profile of Rae Stern, for whom a traumatic head injury changed how she made art
- A conversation on climate change, the Bible, cancer, and music with poet Rebecca Gayle Howell
- Lindsay Forbes Brown on her mother, the medical anomaly
- Fiction by Sharon Pomerantz on what the process of dying reveals
- Poems by Bruce Beasley on DNA, Alex Chertok on Alzheimer’s, Jehanne Dubrow on Covid, Annelies Zijderveld on scars, Maryann Corbett on the ER, Will Smiley on a workplace injury, and more
Also: fiction by Cynthia Martin, art by Becky Moon, Manuel Andreas Dürr, and Heather Lyon, poems by Scott Cairns, K.A. Hays, William Wenthe, and more
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Issue 129 | Summer 2026
An Issue for Ordinary Time
- Molly McCully Brown on how sustained attention can turn an unprepossessing view beautiful
- A conversation with George Saunders on afterlives and whether we can change
- KC McGinnis on the glances photojournalists don’t intend to capture
- Robert M Geraci on Michael Takeo Magruder and controlled prairie burns
- Art that troubles worship as spectacle by Marcus Clarke
- Art that collaborates with non-humans by Eileen Ryan
- Fiction in translation from Miral al-Tahawy
- Poems by Lawrence Joseph, Li-Young Lee, and Allison Seay
- Kyle Abbott Smith on making a life after the marines
- An object arrives for Lia Purpura
- And much more
On the cover: Eileen Ryan. Spiritual Microbiome: Notes on Blood and Water (detail), 2024. Installation with sheep’s blood agar and holy water.
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