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A first person point-of-view illustration of a person using tweezers to care for a bonsai plant producing an abundance of fruit and surrounded by butterflies.

July/August 2023 / Memoir

The Limits of Self-Care

September 4, 2023September 5, 2023 - by Victoria Chan

A shocking spree of anti-Asian violence taught me to put community first

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Illustration of a light pink couch with two cushions and a white blanket draped over the top.

Fiction / July/August 2023

Buddy West

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023 - by Sam Shelstad

“How much for the cowboy in the window?”

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Painting of a girl with long brown hair, facing away from the viewer, swimming in a lake. Trees and vegetation are reflected in the rippled surface of the water.

Arts & Culture / July/August 2023

In Vicki Smith’s Dreamlike Paintings, Women Court Peace in Pools and Lakes

August 30, 2023August 30, 2023 - by Connor Garel

She paints in total silence in an effort to achieve the same meditative state of her subjects

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Illustration of two wolves, drawn in a childish style, riding a bicycle. In the background is a rock and tree branch.

Fiction / July/August 2023

Dispatches Regarding the Woeful Origins of the Town’s Bicycle Race

August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 - by Tom Froh

Today a ranger spotted two wolves on a carbon-frame Ibis tearing down a hill at fifty kilometres per hour

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An illustration of a wedding dress outlined with a heart.

July/August 2023 / Society

My Guilty Pleasure: A Morbid Curiosity for Say Yes to the Dress

August 22, 2023December 21, 2023 - by Tranna Wintour

At the end of each episode, I feel like I’ve dodged a bullet

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Illustration of four wooden chairs around a table with empty drinking glasses on top.

Fiction / July/August 2023

Like a Mother

August 18, 2023August 18, 2023 - by Fawn Parker

I imagined, with each feeding, that I might become less of a mother and more of my old self

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A child in a yellow raincoat stands in a field full of puddles beside a lake. Rain outlines the invisible silhouette of an adult putting their hand on top of the child’s head.

July/August 2023 / Society

Notes from Grief Camp

August 9, 2023August 9, 2023 - by Mitchell Consky

Every summer, more than a hundred kids spend a weekend at Camp Erin swimming and canoeing. They also learn to deal with death

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An illustration of a man wearing sunglasses and a black beret while driving a jet ski that has a quill and inkwell as its motor.

July/August 2023

Editor’s Letter: Indulging Our Love of Words

August 4, 2023August 4, 2023 - by Carmine Starnino

Pleasure is the only organizing principle of the fiction and poetry we publish

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Photo of Phillip Crymble

July/August 2023 / Poetry

Map

August 2, 2023August 2, 2023 - by Phillip Crymble

Together—in our solitudes—we’d throw the last / few bundles in the hatchback—cruise the boulevards

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