Editorial
Mental Health in Anxious Times
There is the disease, and it’s scary enough, but even scarier are the underlying policies, and those that are improvised as we go.
Mental health in anxious times
Essay
Facing COVID-19: A letter from the front line
Four hours later, they were intubating Karina for the ventilator.
Essay
Coming to Grief
What does it say about us that we resist the grief expressed in this play, displacing it into wishful thinking about a better king?
Art
Naghmeh Sharifi: Souvenirs to Nowhere
“Through removal and erasure of the paint from the surface of the canvas initially covered in blue, the final imagery appears as the result of an uncovering.”
Poetry
Uneven Piece for My Online Therapist
Yes, I just used scare quotes.
Meditation
Call and Response
Tell me how I can do this and still live.
Essay
Carpe Noctem (Woman v. Virus, 2020)
I wake up one morning with Macbeth’s line trotting through my head like a horse round a manège
Book Review
Plague Days: Poetics in the time of COVID-19
experimental poetry communicates changing times while remaining timeless
Essay
About Trump’s New Normal
A plague forces us to isolate, sequester into our spaces without the shared moments that make us social creatures.
Short Story
How did this become my life?
No oxys, no benzos, no sleeping pills, not even a bottle of Percocet.
Essay
Diary of the Great Confinement
Saw a police car this morning on my way back from the laundromat, driving around looking for signs of trouble.