Crónica

Fiction |May 7, 2024

two selections from My Body is Paper

a story & a poem by Gil Cuadros

“He was already shirtless and, as he started loosening his belt, the metal buckle picked up reflections of my room, my face on the bed, my look that this will solve everything, that I can lose myself here, that I can’t let my mother rule my life.”
Poetry |May 7, 2024

“Saturn Return” & “Fragment Found in a Ballot Box”

two poems by Joel Brouwer

“… The stark order of sex / disagrees with me. I like to stay home / and make up mysteries, like we did that winter / the rain kept changing to snow and back again.”
Commentary |May 7, 2024

on Phantom Pain Wings, poems by Kim Hyesoon

reviewed by David Woo

“Written after the death of Kim’s actual father, followed ‘three months and ten days later’ by her mother, Phantom Pain Wings delineates a terminal world where existence continues despite the absence of everything.”
Commentary |May 7, 2024

on The Art of Dying: Writings 2019-2022 by Peter Schjeldahl

reviewed by Christoph Irmscher

“Schjeldahl, for the benefit of his devoted audience, demystified both art and writing about art. ‘Each of us,’ he commented in 2004, after visiting a Vermeer exhibit, ‘is born with a capacity to see and feel intensely and with precision.'”

Crónica

Crónica |March 5, 2024

“Bob Weir’s Guitar”

a crónica by Craig Moodie

“He must have been in his early 20’s, maybe not much older than I was at the time. Beard voluminous and tangled, face brick-red from exposure, black hair askew over his forehead, he wrote at a furious pace.”

Crónica |November 7, 2023

“July 14. Bastille Day”

a crónica by Kai Maristed

“He was a Bastille Day baby for sure, a critically thinking 1970’s leftie. Pro-union, anti-racism, against the war in Vietnam. Which didn’t stop him, after high school graduation, from going downtown to the recruiters’ store front.”