From the Archives: The Dog

How easily / I could imagine a version of our lives / in which he kept all his suffering secret from me. / I saw the beer on the counter.




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On the left: a photo of the author, who has a beard, wearing a dark shirt and crossing his arms. On the right: a cover image of the novel with the word "Loca" written in large white font.

Q&A with Alejandro Heredia, author of Loca

I’m just really inspired by writers who write about their corner of their cities and do it in a way that even a hundred years later somebody is able to connect to that place.


The photo looks down the middle between two long shelves of books in a library. There is a person crouching in between them, backlit by a window behind them. A ladder is also behind them.

Mole Galleries

Was there new information about the mole? Was the determination based purely on statistical modeling? I never received a response. I find it fitting. Biologists cannot reach the island. I cannot reach the biologist. All of us, arranged along a spectrum of restrictions. A series of silences.


A black and white photo of a young Asian woman with dark hair parted on one side. She smiles imperceptibly.

From the Archives: Becoming Ghost

He says: I want it to smell / like the real thing. // The real thing / is a landscape // of work and death–– / the names of our ancestors // slack in our mouths, / just the art of loving // your family line enough / to reproduce it.