Editor's Note

This issue is about illness, style, contact, and shade.

Featured Interviews

Judith Thurman, John Keene, and Francesca Lia Block.

Books Reviewed

Perverts, Minor Black Figures, Lonely Crowds, The Director, Grand Rapids, It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me, The Four Spent the Day Together, Lost Lambs, Foreclosure Gothic, Our Air, Dysphoria Mundi, Muscle Man, Will There Ever Be Another You, The Passenger Seat, Butch Manual, Flat Earth, Last Week in End Times Cinema, Another World Isn't Possible, Happiness and Love, Practicing Dying, Magnificent Product, Casanova 2.0, Give Me Danger, Henrytown, Nymph, Repetition, Baby Bruise, Herculine, One or Two, Black Brane, Season of the Rat, Little Lazarus, Fear and Money, Television, Be Dead, Dominion, Pan, Tip of the Spear, Shade, Nova Scotia House, Name, Nula, Holy Smoke, The Royal We, Against Morality, The Gadfly, Information Age, Perfect Victims, Amateurs!, A Queer Theory of the State, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, and many more.

Contributors

Collier Schorr, Macy Rodman, Canal Street Research Association, Ryanaustin Dennis, Adina Glickstein, Mara McKevitt, Ryan Petersen, Frank Nesbitt, A. S. Hamrah, Gerlan Marcel, Claire Donato, Cesar Padilla, Jo Shane, Alex Auder, Travis Jeppesen, C. Frances Fisher, Fabiola Ching, Harry Tafoya, abdu mongo ali, James Nulick, Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Nate Lippens, Alissa Bennett, Candystore, Negashi Armada, and many more.

Editor's Note

This issue is about improvisation, honesty, wreckage, and taste.

Featured Interviews

Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sianne Ngai, and Bruce Benderson.

Books Reviewed

Raw Talent, The Secret Life of a Kept Boy, Fuel, On Breathing, Audition, Rich & Poor, Crybaby, Small Rain, Havoc, Stuff, Permanent Red, Something Rotten, Service, Theatrics, The Mirror of Simple Souls, Authority, Tramps Like Us, Food & Spirits, Thrilled to Death, The Current Fantasy, Airless Spaces, Special Moss, Fuel, The Rose, No Straight Road Takes You There, Little Pink Book, No Sense in Wishing, I Love Shopping, The Motherload, A Philosophy of Shame, Ecstasy, Once Upon a Time, Pirate Enlightenment, My Manservant and Me, The Great Replacement, Earth Angel, Notes on Shapeshifting, The Truth About Diamonds, Helpmeet, Iggy Horse, and many more.

Contributors

Nile Harris, Malcolm-X Betts, K8 Hardy, Mark Iosifescu, Venus Stevens, Alex Schmidt, Ruby McCollister, Steven Phillips-Horst, Lily Marotta, Karl Holmqvist, A. S. Hamrah, Rhea Dillon, Alissa Bennett, Honey Dijon, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Drew Zeiba, Paige K. Bradley, Ludwig Hurtado, Drew Zeiba, Michael Bullock, Nora Treatbaby, Anika Jade Levy, River L. Ramirez, Felix Burrichter, Mara McKevitt, and many more.

Editor's Note

This issue is about loneliness, fancy, sellouts, and clowns.

Featured Interviews

Claudia Rankine, Vigdis Hjorth, Tama Janowitz, and Walter K. Scott.

Books Reviewed

Abolish Rent, fag/hag, Dear Dickhead, Tweakerworld, Napalm in the Heart, Scrap, In Thrall, Providence, Love Poem, Wave of Blood, Creation Lake, Seeing Further, Food Chain, Premium Economy, Black Meme, Killed (Of Kids), Looking For a Kiss, Sluts: An Anthology, In The Clouds, Long Island, Rejection, Wrong Way, Apprentice in Wonderland, Trophy Lives, Health and Safety, Void Corporation, Impossible Failures, Negative Space, Fan Fiction, Parasocialite, My Lesbian Novel, Private Rites, Silly Boy, But Did You Die?, New Mistakes, Micrecognition, The Italy Letters, and many more.

Contributors

A. S. Hamrah, E. Jane, Bruce LaBruce, Oscar yi Hou, Alex Auder, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Tao Lin, Amber Later, Brad Phillips, Brandon Harris, Nicolaia Rips, Julien Ceccaldi, Linda Simpson, Michael Bullock, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Geoffrey Mak, Joseph Akel, Candystore, Taylor Lewandowski, Max Battle, Nora Treatbaby, Magnus Rena, and many more.

Editor's Note

This issue is about surface, friction, inheritance, and debt.

Featured Interviews

Pamela Sneed,
Mary Gaitskill, and Dennis Cooper.

Books Reviewed

Sex Goblin, Brat, Parade, Molly, Cooking Earth, The Club Kids, Virophilia, The Decline of Mall Civilization, Amor Cringe, My First Book, Mean Boys, Bitter Water Opera, Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, The Ginny Suite, Suicide: An Anthology, All Fours, Notice, The Queen’s Ball, Playboy, This Is Hardcore, Footlights, Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear, NDA, Swan, Idlewild, Antiquity, An Honest Woman, Arch Pastoral, Last Movies, Sociopath, Pleasure Principle, When the Clock Broke, No Judgment, Still Pictures, The Satyricon, Who Are You Dorothy Dean? and many more.

Contributors

Taja Cheek, quori theodor, Candystore, Grace Byron, Geoffrey Mak, Taylore Scarabelli, Anika Jade Levy, Johanna Fateman, Brock Colyar, Michael Bullock, Nicole’s Revenge, Skype Williams, Ben Fama, Travis Diehl, Daisy Alioto, Jarrett Earnest, Philippa Snow, Arjun Ram Srivatsa, Emmeline Clein, Katherine Siboni, Greta Rainbow, Coco Klockner, Samuel Rutter, Audrey Robinovitz, Emma Olivia Cohen, Ari J. Lisner, and many more.

Editor's Note

This issue is about desperation, excess, romance, and grief.

Featured Interviews

McKenzie Wark, Michelle Tea, and Travis Jeppesen.

Books Reviewed

Handbags, Better Living Catalog, Poor Things, Better Call Me Home, Standing Heavy, If I Close My Eyes, The Fifth Wound, Murnane, Artaud-Mania, Deliver Me, The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker, Rethinking Sitting, The Plague, Hole Play, Aesthetica, Rent Boy, Further From Heaven, Taxidermist's Notebook, First Pylon, Phanto, Touching The Art, Bad Infinity, Drive It All Over Me, Catgut — The Opera, Minor Detail, Valid Until Sunset, Organs of Little Importance, and many more.

Contributors

A. S. Hamrah, Diamond Stingily, Journey Streams, Casey Jane Ellison, Slava Mogutin, Esmé Naumes-Givens, Drew Zeiba, Johanna Fateman, Maya Martinez, Geoffrey Mak, Rachel Oyster Kim, Lily Marotta, Paul Kopkau, Justin Moran, John Belknap, Tamara Faith Berger, Kawai Shen, Vivien Lee, Nate Lippens, Haley Mlotek, Alissa Bennet, Esra Soraya Padgett, T. Amolo Ochieng' Nyong'o, Max Steele, Tony Jackson, Naben Ruthnum, Em Brill, David Fishkind, Steven Phillips Horst, and many more.

Editor's Note

This first issue is about spirit, transmission, self-defense, and sex.

Featured Interviews

Brontez Purnell, Tamara Faith Berger, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany.

Books Reviewed

A Woman's Story, Architect, Verb, Blacklips, Dollhouse, Do Everything In The Dark, The Guest, Palo Alto, Some New Kind of Kick, The Ugly History of Beautiful Things, Tuesday Or September Or the End, Urban Gothic, Which As You Know Means Violence, Cimino, dykes day, I Fear My Pain Interests You, I Could Not Believe It, Pirate Enlightenment, My Manservant and Me, The Great Replacement, Earth Angel, Notes on Shapeshifting, The Truth About Diamonds, Helpmeet, Iggy Horse, and many more.

Contributors

Ada Antoinette, Negashi Armada, John Belknap, Bruce Benderson, Michael Bullock, Holly Connolly, Geoff Dembicki, Micaela Durand, Ian Volner, Jarrett Earnest, Ben Fama, David Fishkind, Fuck Theory, A. S. Hamrah, Marie Heilich, Leah Hennessey, Cody Hicks, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Colleen Kelsey, Zoe Koke, Evan Lincoln, Paloma Luna Maisonet, Liara Roux, James Yeh, Lily Lady, Mikkel Rosengaard, Holly Conolly, and many more.