The November/December Issue
December 4, 2025
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Childfree by Choice
December 4, 2025
By refusing to give birth, I have birthed the version of myself that I always wanted to be.
A Beautiful Life: Paul Waters on Art, Perseverance, and the Power of Creation
December 4, 2025
A painter shaped by global travel, the Bowery art scene, and a lifetime of quiet dedication, Paul Waters shares the remarkable story of a life spent making art against the odds.
The Graffiti Question
December 4, 2025
Every graffiti artist is a superhero. Their work is, by nature, uncredited.
(Us) The Camera
December 4, 2025
“ . . . I try to record everything I see but the images, the sounds, the captions, the words evaporate before my eyes and all I can do is guess, lie, make mistakes . . .”
The Museum of Gush Etzion
December 4, 2025
Dina Awwad-Srour transforms a bureaucratic errand in Gush Etzion into an act of witnessing that imagines a future museum rising from the machinery of control.
From the Archives
Gordon Grant
disease, too deep to retrieve / with simple stick or hands that also reach / for my daughter
First Love Never Dies
Set in Santiago City, Philippines, this story follows the bitterness of a love long lost, echoing the quiet ache of a nation’s unfulfilled promises.
Puncture → Burst
My throat still burns when I think about that summer… It burns all the way down, as if I’ve swallowed something scalding, a thick syrup of fear’s reduction.
Things as It is: An Interview with Chase Twichell
Chase Twichell on poetry, Zen, and the luminous attention that begins where the self ends.