Editorial Mental Health in Anxious Times Claudia Itzkowich There is the disease, and it’s scary enough, but even scarier are the underlying policies, and those that are improvised as we go.
Essay Facing COVID-19: A letter from the front line Scott Weinstein Four hours later, they were intubating Karina for the ventilator.
Essay Coming to Grief Michael Bristol 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 Naghmeh Sharifi, interviewed by Claudia Itzkowich “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 Andrés Castro Yes, I just used scare quotes. I can’t help myself
Essay Carpe Noctem (Woman v. Virus, 2020) Marie Thérèse Blanc 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 Louise Carson experimental poetry communicates changing times while remaining timeless
Essay About Trump’s New Normal Mark Silverman 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? Ami Sands Brodoff No oxys, no benzos, no sleeping pills, not even a bottle of Percocet.
Essay Diary of the Great Confinement Catherine Watson Saw a police car this morning on my way back from the laundromat, driving around looking for signs of trouble.
