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Seth AbramsonSETH ABRAMSON is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Thievery (University of Akron Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 Akron Poetry Prize. A doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is also Series Co-Editor for Best American Experimental Writing (Omnidawn, 2014) and a contemporary poetry reviewer for The Huffington Post.
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Nearly one year after the We See You, White American Theater collective sent out a list of demands to theater institutions across the country, holding them accountable for their lack of BIPOC inclusion, writer Brittani Samuel gives a progress report, and evaluates how the organization’s advocacy has impacted and changed theater as we know it.
Editor’s Note
By Will ChancellorFEB 2021 | Fiction
This month we’re pleased to publish an excerpt from Vesna Maric’s The President Shop. The novel’s backdrop is an allegorical country, The Nation, steeped in tyranny, but the focus is on the human rather than the trappings of propaganda. I was struck by the young woman, Mona, decoding the timelessness that’s always present, even as we pass through moments that are consciously historic. “Symbology,” by Betsy M. Narváez, abounds in images, meanings, dreams, and visions. Here, there’s no official, waking world, little external at all. Narváez gives us resonant moments over coffee of a mother and a daughter unpuzzling the language of dreams. We’re also tremendously fortunate to have Maisy Card stepping in as co-editor of the fiction section of the Brooklyn Rail. Her debut novel, These Ghosts are Family, masterfully courses through the history of a family while communicating the texture and hunger of life as it was lived.
David Winner with Joan Marcus
MAY 2021 | Books
David Winner’s darkly satirical third novel, Enemy Combatant, takes us to the Caucasus region during the second Bush administration, where longtime friends set off on a misguided mission to infiltrate a CIA secret prison. The action is propulsive, the narrative surreal and deeply unnerving. Haunted by recent loss, adrift in an unfamiliar land, the character’s desperate moves unwind hypnotically, their consequences in turns tragic and absurd.
What’s the Use of a University?
By Samuel Feldblum and John SchmidtSEPT 2020 | Field Notes
The history of the University of California over the last half-century has been written through protest. Student movements and labor actions alike erupt iteratively in response to changes in the UC’s structure. Amid one longer struggle, each generation fights its own particular battles.
