Issue 13 / Spring 2018 So, I’ll just go straight into it. First question:?What, to you, does it mean to be African? Well, to borrow from Ryan Coogler, I’ll say it is a thread—weft or warp—running through & across the Earth, this fabric we know by no other...
Issue 13 / Spring 2018 He’s here on the pretension of installing your dryer. You invited him over after your date, though all you needed was the right-sized wrench to unscrew the rusty bolts on the back. He offers to finish installing your appliance, and you...
Issue 13 / Spring 2018 Months after the accident, her father—my brother Stephen—told me this: “I’m at the bottom of a crater, and I have to explore it. My face is so close to the rock, I’ve managed only to explore about one square inch so far. It’s humongous,...
Issue 12 / Winter 2018 How do we notice what is not there? What does it take to recognize the missing or the invisible? Driving down a Los Angeles street we had driven down at least one thousand times, I noticed a newly vacant lot. “What used to be there?” I...
Issue 12 / Winter 2018 I found him slouched against the wall by the Kids Foot Locker on Canal Street, though he looked to be long past kiddie shoes. He was waiting for the streetcar and seemed familiar to me because I’d dreamt about someone like him the night...
