Vol. 18, No. 4, Winter 2013 (#72)

Featuring Alysia Abbott, Douglas Bauer, Matt Rasmussen, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and more . . .  purchase now

INTERVIEWS

Alysia Abbott: Graduating from Fairlyand | interviewed by Jessie Bennett
Douglas Bauer: What Happens Next? | interviewed by Michael Thurston

FEATURES

mnartists presents: Matt Rasmussen’s Black Aperture | by Connie Wanek
A Gaggle of Dedications by Louis Philips
Current Work, a note from 2013 by Rachel Blau DuPlessis


Cover artwork by Xavier Tavera

Plus:

The New Life | by Gary Sullivan

REVIEWS

NONFICTION

Gus Blaisdell Collected | Gus Blaisdell |  by George Kalamaras
Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas | Eric Fischl and Michael Stone | by Mason Riddle
The Reason I Jump | Naoki Higashida |  by Allan Vorda
Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture | Simon Warner |  by Steve Matuszak
Italo Calvino: Letters 1941–1985 | Italo Calvino |  David Wiley
Sightlines: A Conversation with the Natural World | Kathleen Jamie |  by Krista Eastman
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture | Ytasha L. Womack |  by Niels Strandskov
The Stray Bullett: William S. Burroughs in Mexico | Jorge García-Robles | by Andrew Marzoni
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–42 | William Dalrymple | by Mukund Belliappa
A Short History of the Twentieth Century | John Lukacs |  by Stephen Hartwell

ART/COMICS

Harlem Street Portraits
Harvey Stein Harold Feinstein: A Retrospective | Harold Feinstein |  by Eric Lorberer
Rage of Poseidon | Anders Nilsen |  by John Eisler   
Archie: The Married Life, Books 1–4 | Michael Uslan, Paul Kupperberg, et al. |  by Thomas Kalb

FICTION

A Stranger in Olondria | Sofia Samatar |  by Jane Franklin
Pleasure | Gabriele D’Annunzio |  by David Wiley
Traveling Sprinkler | Nicholson Baker |  by Andrew Cleary
The Residue Years | Mitchell S. Jackson |  by Scott F. Parker
Snow Hunters | Paul Yoon |  by Robert Martin
All My Friends | Marie NDiaye |  by John Pistell
Ben Barka Lane    Mahmoud Saeed    by Spencer Dew
Forest of a Thousand Daemons | D.O. Fagunwa |  by Rudi Dornemann
Sunland | Don Waters |  by Robert M. Detman

POETRY

Door of Thin Skins | Shira Dentz |  by Megan Burns
Miss Plastique | Lynn Levin |  by Christine Hamm
Soul in Space | Noelle Kocot |  by Erin Lyndal Martin
The Stick Soldiers | Hugh Martin |  by John Bradley
The Disordered | Anhvu Buchanan |  by Steven Wingate
Without a Claim | Grace Schulman |  by Olivia Boone
Psalm of All My Days | Patrice de La Tour du Pin |  by Michele Balze
Chain Link Fence | Patti White |  by Lynnell Edwards
War Reporter | Dan O’Brien |  by John Bradley

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