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Poet, art critic, curator, and musician Jeffrey Grunthaner’s first full-length poetry collection Paracelsus’ Trouble With Sundays is a book like no other I have ever known, one that truly must be seen to be believed.

Thoughtfully compiled by the artist’s daughter, the book acts as a fascinating counterpoint to the cohesive prose of the artist’s journals. The perceptible changes in her interests, opinions, and tone throughout offer readers fresh insights into her art, writing, and life.

I photographed this Jack in the Box in Los Angeles as part of a project, in progress, that illustrates a night as described by Alan Bell’s Black Jack Newsletter. The newsletter announced a roving, monthly safe sex club party for Black gay men, which lasted from 1986 through 1989. Newcomers, known as “Green Members,” would meet Black Jack staff at fast-food restaurants throughout Los Angeles to receive that night’s address; in a cruising culture lacking the casualness with whi...

Blake William’s latest experimental 3D short suggests that, with respect to cinema itself, the eye is capable of feeling so much more than we suspect.

The exhibition takes its title from the works on view, a selection from Suh’s “Memory Gap” series, all of which are composed on hanji. The paper itself appeals to the senses, thick and creamy, and striated with pulpy veins that suggest the lined and wrinkled hands of your grandmother.

Carol Mirakove is the author of two books of poems, Mediated and Occupied, and three chapbooks, Muriel’s House, temporary tattoos, and WALL. She has provided spoken word for tracks by musicians bates45 and Firas Kay. She has lived in Brooklyn for 17 years (not in a row).

Irish author Megan Nolan has written two novels now, the titles of which neatly represent fatal flaws that set nearly all fiction in motion. Nolan’s latest, Ordinary Human Failings brings to mind the regrets of inaction—mundane sufferings, paralysis by analysis.

Maybe the best way to make sense of a wild hair is to locate its strange bedfellow. Confronted by Isabel Waidner’s latest novel, the surreal and splendid Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, I sought out their previous. This was Sterling Karat Gold, which in 2021 captured the UK’s Goldsmiths award for “fiction that breaks the mold;” American publication came last year. Sure enough, that book and the new one prove companion berserkers.

Ashley D Escobar is a bi-coastal writer, filmmaker, and fiction MFA candidate at Columbia University. Her first poetry chapbook SOMETIMES came out with Invisible Hand Press in 2021. She co-edits Wind-up Mice and has appeared in the London Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.

Sandra Simonds is an award-winning writer and professor who has taught at Bennington College, Florida State University and Thomas University. She is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Triptychs (Wave Books, November 2022) which was a 2022 New York Times selection.