Summer 2025 Issue

Order our Summer 2025 issue, a special fiction issue.

FICTION
The Rabbit’s Foot
Sigrid Nunez

Into the Light
Rachel Cusk

Welcome to the Club
Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

The Edge of the Lake
Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti

The Shanda
Sarah Bernstein

Crossings
Bryan Washington

Junk
Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Kurt Beals

ESSAYS
The Talented Ms. Highsmith
Working for the novelist in her last months
Elena Gosalvez Blanco

A CLOSER READ
Taking Offense
Reading through bad feeling
Garth Greenwell

OBJECTS OF DESIRE
Doorknobs
Opening onto other lives
Katie Kitamura

Salomé
The secret history of a family name
Colombe Schneck

Blue Crabs
Eating them the way God intended
Joseph Earl Thomas

POETRY
Regaining Unconsciousness
Harryette Mullen

Cruising at the Plant Store with Pink Eye
Tommy Pico

For the Time Being
Philip Schultz

The Swan
Victoria Chang

Reading
Kathleen Ossip

Armenian Blues
Peter Balakian

PORTFOLIO
Rhona Bitner
On Pointe

REVIEWS
The Eternal Now of Richard Foreman
How the downtown playwright reinvented theater
Jennifer Krasinski

"Elton, How Big Were the Squash Courts?"
A new novel recalls the golden age of fact-checking
Susan Choi

Cover: Y. Malik Jalal, SMEAR, 2024. Courtesy the artist and March Gallery, New York. 

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