In 2011, two years before I show up to Officer Candidate School, the Marine Corps changes its uniform order to allow …
Issue 051: April 2021
New Fiction from David Blome: “Bodies”
On a bright December morning, the lieutenant told me the news. An insurgent group in Latifiyah had executed about twe…
New Review from Adrian Bonenberger: Brian Castner’s “‘Stampede’: Disaster and Gold Fever in the Klondike”
My earliest exposure to the literature of 19th century Alaska came in the form of Jack London’s Call of the Wild. An …
New Poetry from Kevin Honold: “Elegy for the Emperor Frederick II”
i.view from Emigrant, Death Valley The snowy Amargosas kneel beside the salt flats stained with the blue shadows of c…
New Poetry from Alise Versella: “Parallels,” “Red-Breasted Sparrows,” “I Wonder If History’s Men Knew They Would Be Great,” “A Fierce Sense of Resolve”
PARALLELS The birds with convictionTap out their lyrics in the snowAnd their chatter descends upon the mountainsLook …
New Review from Michael Carson: “Cherry” by Nico Walker
Early on in Nico Walker’s Cherry, the narrator, working a dead-end shoe store job to pay for drugs while his parents …
New Film Review from Larry Abbott: “This is Not a War Story”
Timothy Reyes (Danny Ramirez), a young Marine Lance Corporal veteran, spends his days riding subway trains throughout…