Print Issue:

Volume 19 Number 1

Erika T. Wurth
Whitehorse Love
Aharon Appelfiel
Our Ranks

In The Print Issue:

John Edgar Wideman
Who Weeps When One of Us Goes Down Blues

Muriel Moulton
War Zone

Isaac Babel
Three Letters

Suzy Spraker
Dead In Places

Liza Lorwin
Fair Maid

Rainer Maria Rilke
From: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Stacy M. Tintocalis
Another Kind of Sleep

Lindsay Ahl
The Sound a Leopard Makes

Annapurna Potluri
A Day at Home

John Sullivan
Don't Let Her Get Away

Dina Rabadi
Silver Boxes

Meinrad Inglin
The Furggel

Robert Dawson
No One Without Qualities

Jennifer S. Davis
Lily, Love

Dan Carpenter
Working Title Snow

Robert Menasse
Long Time No See

William Clifford
The Simple Truth Behind the Notorious Last Smile of Toby Fowler

Peter Moore Smith
Animal Gratitude

Paula Bomer
She Was Everything to Him

Tricia Curreens-Sheehan
Field Organizer

Mei Chin
Checking Out

Cathleen Calbert
My Argentine

R. Clifton Spargo
Sincerity

Marit Folstad
Photo Stills from Bubbles

Our Ranks

by Aharon Appelfiel

1.

Tel Aviv is sticky in July; you can't touch a handrail or a wall. I bought a pair of gloves to keep my distance from murky substances. Everything sweats, and I spend a lot of time in the shower; still, the steamy, suffocating sweat penetrates, making the air cringe. I turn on the tape recorder and sit in an armchair. Classical music, a few hours of it, tears my mind