Rockpools, Oaks [excerpt] — Timothy Thornton

These two words represent something I knew once, for half a second, a brief revelation which I owe […]

Exhibit 1: Peter Hujar — L.A. Leere

Palermo Catacombs #7 (Two Girls Together) Sisters, probably, hopefully—uncomfortably morbid if friends, not that the baseline morbidity of […]

Doppelgänger (A Gonzo Mission) — Alberto Prunetti, tr. Fernando Sdrigotti

Twenty years later. Twenty years later I’m on my way to Bristol. Or rather, on my way to […]

The Critic and Their Readers — Michel Butor (tr. Mathilde Merouani)

One always writes with a view to being read. This word I am writing is intended for a […]

Queer Reverie, or, What’s Behind Sebastian’s Loincloth — Francis Keaton

A brief description of the work: a Dionysiac ((effeminate))(((queer object of desire))) man clutches a tree,Sighing as his […]

For Katharina — Sharon Kivland

I THE SPECIMEN DREAM He had been giving psychoanalytic treatment to a young lady. She was on friendly […]

Portal / Tomb — Eoghan Carrick

§ I’m following Google Maps. The blue line is a thinning footpath hugging the outside of Cabinteely Park. […]

Daisy Troop #505 Finds a Pet Cemetery — Shannon Frost Greenstein

I drain the dregs of my espresso martini and burst out laughing. “Remember when she fried her hair […]

The I Recommends — Jon Doughboy

Full of admiration, this I is, for people with firm opinions, especially aesthetic judgements, their confidence, the way […]

From the Notebooks (2) — Andrew Milward

An aphoristic essay by philosopher Andrew Milward on the relationship between philosophy and various forms of art, particularly in terms of the concepts of the minoritarian and the majoritarian.