Category: Issue Valentine 2020

My first word was “tlo.” You know, “tlo.” It meant “cat,” my Mum would tell me, proudly. “How did you know?” I remember asking skeptically. Mum would get out my baby book and there it would be, in my Dad’s handwriting: “Sarah’s first word: ‘tlo’ (cat).” I do not recall whether I used “tlo” to […]

In the spring of 1975, Simeon Wade, a struggling junior faculty member at Claremont Graduate University, wrote a letter to Michel Foucault. He heard that Foucault was coming to Berkeley to lecture, and invited him to campus. He included in his invitation a “demanding program” of seminars, lectures, and parties for the critic to attend, […]

Four years ago, I moved from the southern United States to northern England. I thought the main adjustment would be adapting to higher education in a different country (and initially it was), but it turned out that learning to drive in the UK would prove my biggest hurdle. I passed my license in Canada at […]

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rilke March 6th marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Mike Tyson’s first professional fight and the start of his meteoric rise in heavyweight boxing. In and outside of the ring, Tyson tapped our collective consciousness in a way few fighters […]

The projector kicks on. Saint Valentine smears the cosmos across the dome as lovers lean into one another. You spotted me drifting through Ursa Major. I was huddled alone over a thesis that didn’t mean much. Constellations blurred at the event horizon, as weeks turned to drafts and I took to sleeping on the couch. […]

Crystal B. Lake, Love, Labor, Loss J. Brendan Shaw, Drinking Tea Alone with Friends Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Psycho (But Cute) Emily Hodgson Anderson, Taming Sarah Moon, A Love Letter for Anne of Green Gables Travis Chi Wing Lau, William Hay; Or, An Obsession Sarah Tindal Kareem, An Annotated Playlist for David Hume Emily Corwin, Antidote: […]