Issue 8 • New York
- Editor’s Note
The Future Tense
“The ground of home is shifting beneath you.”
- Essay
The Greatest Jewish City in the World
by Konrad Bercovici
“Were it not for Jews, the church would be empty on Sundays.” Read online»
- Interview
A Conversation with André Aciman
“A Jew is not allowed to stop being in exile.” Read online»
- Fiction
We Learn English by Talking to Each Other
by Arnon Grunberg
“He taught us at least twenty different expressions for dying.”
- Poetry
by Anna Frajlich
- Essay
Inside and Beyond Worlds
by Carmen Firan
“Time is everything in America.”
- Interview
A Conversation with Meena Alexander
“Manhattan really is a palimpsest.”
- Poetry
by Meena Alexander
- Fiction
Words by Moonlight
by Norman Manea
“He found his peace in the court of the Great Anonymous.”
- Poetry
The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi
by Eugene Ostashevsky
- Portfolio
Cultural Tips for New Americans
by Jeff & Alina Bliumis
- Portfolio
Street Notations
by Edward Hillel
- Fiction
The Lost Bet
by Pavel Lembersky
“This isn’t the time to be funny.”
- Poetry
by Isaac Goldemberg
- Essay
The Music of Anomaly
by Sergio Chejfec
“The real breach opens up between the origin and the present.”
- Fiction
Foam
by Irina Reyn
“A KGB agent would know everything about her.”
- Portfolio
New York
by Michael Ackerman
- Interview
A Conversation with Michael Arad
“On 9/11, my misplaced sense of security evaporated.” Read online»
