Volume 17 Τεύχος 12

  • Goldman Variation

    Photos by Roe Ethridge

  • Janus

    “Well, that wasn’t too bad,” David West muttered as he put the car in gear and pulled out onto the high seacoast road. He was speaking, more or less, to his wife, Vivian, beside him, concerning the ease with which they had just passed the Ventimiglia...

  • The London Skate Scene

    The summer passed in waves of gnarly violence. Bombs started going off in town almost every single week. There were seven in Zone One in July. Sometimes suicide bombs, sometimes car bombs, sometimes bombs left in a bin or a bag.

  • Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

    During the 70s and 80s, bisexual former stripper and groundbreaking author Kathy Acker penned a series of post-punk rewrites of classics such as Great Expectations, Huckleberry Finn and Don Quixote, with added abortion, rape, incest, and pornography.

  • Two Stories

    Gina Berriault was not just a writer’s writer. She was a writer’s writer’s writer’s writer.

  • Writers

    Icons and their images.

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  • Employees Of The Month

    Time and pot.

  • Seven Andy Capp Variations

    Images courtesy of the artist, STANDARD (OSLO), and Air de Paris. Watch for a book of Torbjørn’s Andy Capps coming this winter from Hassla Books

  • Mary Karr

    Karr handles gruesome experiences with such compassion, charm, lyricism, vividness, and mordant comedy that the work transcends mere horror story or freak show. Her storytelling melds scrappy Texas slang with poetic precision and is totally addictive.

  • Charles Burns

    The author and artist behind uncannily creepy comic books like Black Hole, Big Baby, and Skin Deep. In his work, he’s created a world that feels like an eerie parallel to those of David Lynch and some of Lovecraft.

  • Postscript

    “Does nobody understand?”

  • The Sisters Brothers

    I was sitting outside the Commodore’s mansion, waiting for my brother Charlie to come out with news of the job. It was threatening to snow and I was cold and for want of something to do I studied Charlie’s new horse Nimble. My new horse was called Tub.