By Joanna Ruocco
“The broad-shouldered kombucha brewer holds a brain in a jar. His raincoat is boring. There is no one else in the coatroom. Beyond the coatroom, the potluck is raging. I hear a crack-crack-crack, the gluten-free table buckling under the weight of… what?”
Issue 18 features work by Joanna Ruocco, Miguel Barnet (translated by George Henson), Ricardo Piglia (translated by Robert Croll), Lise Gauvin (translated by Aliya Esmail), Dia Felix, Brooks Sterritt, Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada, Molly Yingling, Silver Damsen, Rob McClure Smith, Amitai ben-Abba, July Westhale, Martina Reisz, Thomas March, Adam Clay, Elizabeth Spires, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Cover art by Sean Casey.