Begins
Gillian Conoley
A Family Restaurant
Karen Russell
Falling
Sallie Tisdale
Rapid Transit
Rick Moody
Two Poems
Rae Armantrout
32 Lemmas
Karen Hays
Scott & Ben
Robert Clark
Swim for the Little One First
Noy Holland
Interrupted Elegy
Octavio Paz and Translated by Eliot Weinberger
Mother Box
Sarah Blackman
The Clouds, The Apples, Their Lives
Ann Beattie
Charlie Moon’s Last Performance
Clark Knowles
Lamentation
Rachel Tzvia Back
Deceit
Joyce Carol Oates
From The Spokes
Miranda Mellis
Father & Sons
Robert Kelly
The Secondary Confessions
Aurelie Sheehan
You’ll Be Sorry
A. D. Jameson
Through the Rivers
Andrew Mossin
Sin
Can Xue, Translated by Karen Gernant and Translated by Chen Zeping
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, ou la Mort
Micaela Morrissette
Four Stories
Andrew R. Touhy
The Dwindling
Diane Josefowicz
Buddy
Translated by Edward Gauvin and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
From Fifth-Grade Ophelia
Gracie Leavitt
Fathers in Their Old Age: A Primer
Christie Hodgen
Quality of Life in Switzerland
Scott Geiger
Uncle Lou
Elizabeth Hand
Begins
Gillian Conoley
Cover art: The Abraham Pixler Family, c. 1815. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1966 (66.242.3). Watercolor, pen and iron gall ink, and gouache on off-white laid paper, 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY.
Our ancestors, our parents, our siblings, our spouses, our children, our children’s children. Family trees, pedigrees. Forebears, descendants. Nothing is more familiar, nothing more ineffable than the emotional prism, the blood knot that constitutes family. This special issue explores the intricacies of family ties and the labyrinthine nature of kinship.
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