Birth of a Brother
Sandra Leong
Life with Father
Robert Clark
Two Poems
Catherine Imbriglio
Levittown
Lesley Yalen
The Hauser Variations (As Sung by Male Voices, A Capriccio)
Melissa Pritchard
Three Poems
Daniel Coudriet
Adventure
Paul La Farge
A Secret Life
Rikki Ducornet
Three Essays
David Shields
From Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration
Karen Russell
Boy
Elizabeth Robinson
Close to Home
Joshua Furst
Three Poems
Donald Revell
The Distillery
Emily Barton
Two Incidents from Exist to Kiss You
Howard Norman
Ten O’Clock
Micaela Morrissette
Nuts
Gahan Wilson
Mikky Waze
Gilbert Sorrentino
Nizi Goes to Market
Translated by Chen Zeping, Translated by Karen Gernant and Yan Lianke
Fourteen Prose Poems
Ben Lerner
Four Stories
Diane Williams
The Big Betty Stories
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Fretless
Peter Gizzi
Girls in White Dresses
Mary Caponegro
Two Stories
Scott Geiger
Younger
Brian Evenson
Life Drawing
Translated by Fanny Howe, Ilona Karmel and Translated by Arie A. Galles
Five Stories
Kim Chinquee
Memoirs of a Boy Detective
David Marshall Chan
Five Poems
Danielle Pafunda
Digging to the Devil
Julia Elliott
Walking Hand in Hand with Dinah: A Book without Pictures or Conversations
Lucy Corin
Conversations with Fountains
Elaine Equi
Latona Street
S. and G. Miller
Three Poems
Malinda Markham
Thunderbird
Mark Poirier
Two Stories
Can Xue, Translated by Karen Gernant and Translated by Chen Zeping
From Nursery Rhymes
Sté, Translated by phane Mallarmé, and John Ashbery
Caves
Robert Creeley
Birth of a Brother
Sandra Leong
Two Poems
Catherine Imbriglio
Levittown
Lesley Yalen
Three Poems
Daniel Coudriet
Cover art: Untitled (Vivian Girls Watching Approaching Storm in Rural Landscape), by Henry Darger. From the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, New York. Museum purchase and anonymous gift in recognition of Sam Farber. Copyright © Kiyoko Lerner.
The commonality of it, for those who manage to make the passage into adulthood, in no way lessens the vast jumble of experience that childhood visits upon us. It is a time of wonderment, delight, trauma, mystery, terror, vulnerability, animation, ignorance, growth, obsession, frustration, dread, callousness, curiosity, anger, learning, duplicity, joy, and pain: a trial by fire whose mixed reward is most often more of the same when we grow older. In these stories, poems, novel excerpts, memoirs, and essays, darkness often mingles with laughter—not merely the laughter of innocence but that of freshly earned knowledge.
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