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An illustration of two human silhouettes against a blue background.

Until the End

By Carl Phillips
A black and white illustration of a wildflower meadow.

In Bloom

By Katarzyna Szaulińska, translated from Polish by Mark Tardi

It’s Important I Remember That Things Are Getting Back to Normal Around Here —

By Cortney Lamar Charleston
Shadow of home plant on wall

[The Tip of the Stalk]

By Ernst Meister, translated from German by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick

Peter Trachtenberg

Peter Trachtenberg is the author of Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons; 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh; and The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. He’s currently at work on The Last Artists in New York, a group biography of New York’s Westbeth arts community that’s also a meditation on the predicament of the arts in the late capitalist metropolis. It will be published by Black Sparrow in 2023. His honors include the Whiting Award, the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and residencies at Yaddo and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre. He teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and the Bennington Writing Seminars.
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Essay Arts & Culture

On Stoicism

By Peter Trachtenberg May 16, 2022
For a listener steeped in tragic songs about drug addiction, “Junco Partner” is a shock.
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