Emergences
Patrick Milian02.19.18
“The biggest boundary to fully functional artificial intelligence is language processing.” 12 mini-essays by Patrick Milian, traversing the ongoing fractal “making and unmaking” of the boundaries of human experience.
THEN I BUST OUT: Review of Dead Bat (Stereotype out of 10)
Amy Lawless & Jeff Alessandrelli02.16.18
“The new thinking about loss is no different than the old thinking about loss, yadda yadda yadda. But loss has never been about thoughts new or old and to believe so is to believe only in humanity.” Amy Lawless and Jeff Alessandrelli kick off their series of reviews of living and dead animals, THEN I BUST OUT, with a review of the dead bat.
Marionette
Gaurav Monga02.14.18
“Already even then the actor who occupied center stage had been replaced by a marionette that looked like him, so much so that many years later the actor began to assume marionette-like movements and even fashioned his clothes to resemble that of a doll’s.” New fiction by Gaurav Monga.
Fado, Feminism, and Faith in Marina Carreira’s I Sing To That Bird Knowing He Won’t Sing Back
Hugo dos Santos02.13.18
Marina Carreira’s I Sing to that Bird Knowing That He Won’t Sing Back is “an ambitious first publication; one that succeeds, in part, because of how true it remains to the essence, both personal and cultural, both literal and figurative, of fado, the Portuguese genre of music, as a form of artistic expression.” Hugo dos Santos reviews.
Obligatory Leaving New York City Essay
Todd Dillard02.12.18
“Someone says: everyone has a leaving New York essay in them, even the people who have never been to New York. It might be me; I am sometimes an asshole.” Todd Dillard sorts through a decade of asymmetrical experience of NYC, searching for something like himself.
Elegy to the Great Auk
Yuan Changming02.09.18
“Eldey Island. 3 July 1844. Two Iceland fishermen / Caught and killed two birds” New poetry by Yuan Changming.
King-King, Soft with Love
Harris Lahti02.07.18
“The other aides don’t know King-King like me. The other aides think he is a pervert. But the other aides are wrong.” New fiction by Harris Lahti.
Against the Narrowing of Language: On Nanni Balestrini’s Blackout
Joseph Houlihan02.06.18
Blackout by Nanni Balestrini imagines a power outage in a city like New York, like the one that took place on July 13, 1977, as an opportunity for significant social change. Joseph Houlihan reviews.
My House, Our House
Innas Tsuroiya02.05.18
Innas Tsuroiya provides “a personal museum for breached goods,” cataloguing the space and objects that frame her family’s daily life.
Unpublishable: The Paintings of Edward Mullany
Edward Mullany02.01.18
Edward Mullany explores the difference between emotional and historical truths in this series of paintings that draws from the life of Christ – but reminds the view of shades of Francis Bacon.
