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POETRY
JULIE CHOFFEL Executive Function / Rest Stop / Even the Others
BURNSIDE SOLEIL In California for Your Birthday, We Saw Coyote at Dawn / Notes on the Second Horse in Charles Ray’s Two Horses
KAZIM ALI Losing My Religion
JESSICA TANCK Wood Violet / Return of the Prodigal Son
BRUCE BOND Emptiness
SHANNON KUTA KELLY Český Těšín/Cieszyn
PERRY LEVITCH nobody’s cis at the airport
FICTION
ROY KESEY Currency or Syntax or Lens
KATHLEEN WHEATON Beautiful Bob’s House Museum
NICOLE ZHU Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often
SAM MUNSON The Coughing Policeman
NONFICTION
Explorations
JOANNA NOVAK Beneath a Canopy of Light: Don’t Forget We Were Here
Reckonings
ALYSIA HAN Mendelssohn
DAN MUSGRAVE Limb from Limb
Testimonies
GABEBA BADEROON Adjacency, or, Words for Pain
TRANSLATIONS
JANG EUN-JIN Will Someone Please Come Knocking at My Door
translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton
GAROUS ABDOLMALEKIAN from “The Middle East: A Trilogy—War, Love, Solitude”
translated by Siavash Saadlou
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
At the Crossroads of Life and Death from The Idiot, Part One, Chapter V
translated by Michael R. Katz
CHUNGKING EXPRESS AT 30: REWATCHING WONG KAR WAI
guest edited by J. M. Tyree
MAY-LEE CHAI Hong Kong, Mon Amour
TOMOÉ HILL Your scent is where I want you to take me
MICHAEL KAPLAN Never Quite as It Seems
LAUREN HOHLE The Central-Mid-Levels Escalator as Metaphor, or, a Theory of Narrative
ZEN REN .01 cm apart
COREY ZELLER When I Put on a Raincoat, I Put on Sunglasses Too. Who Knows When It Will Rain, or When It Will Turn Out Sunny?
NATHAN XIE What Gives
CHESWAYO MPHANZA Deleted Scene with Director’s Commentary
MAGGIE SU Midnight Media
RENA J. MOSTEIRIN Last Night California
SEÁN CARLSON False Cognates
DENNIS HAUCK Halyna Hutchins and Her Wong Kar Wai
FLORA QIAN Hong Kong: A Love Story in Three Parts
MEG POKRASS In May
ANGELA CHEN Year of the Rabbits
REDISCOVERIES
SAMUEL JOHNSON On the Unquestionable Certainty of One’s Own Virtue