AQR Vol. 38, No. 1 & 2, Summer/Fall 2021

About the Cover

About the cover and photographer
Wild Rhubarb, Midnight, Quartz Creek Trail, White Mountains, Alaska. © 2021 Kate Wool.

Table of Contents

NOVELLA

Like a Bomb Went Off, Kristopher Jansma

STORIES

Another Castle, Mackenzie McGee
Volunteers, Nathan Curtis Roberts
The Monsoon Days, Jonathan Starke
Goldfish, Ada Zhang
Trapped in a Cave, Matt Greene
The River Passage, Heather Monley
American Lady, Laurie Baker

ESSAYS

Ambivalent Things, Jehanne Dubrow
Sinkhole, Dawn Davies
The Boy Who Lives Upstairs, Jane McCafferty
The Narratives We Give and Take, Alex Chertok
To Outline the Moon, Kirsten Reneau
Amass, Jai Dulani
Unspeakable, Sara Eliza Johnson

LONG POEM

The Memorist, Bruce Bond

POEMS

Chris Martin Sings Shiver & I Shiver: A Poem for Madam Vice Pres-ident, Felicia Zamora
Career Day, Lara Egger
Poem after Egon Schiele’s Painting Self-Portrait as Saint Sebastian, Danusha Laméris
What Begins, Danusha Laméris
Blue Note, Mathew Nienow
On the Condition of Being Born, Mathew Nienow
The Art of Confounding Chaos, Sarah Brown Weitzman
My Daughter, Talking about Boys, Gary Fincke
Came a Sickness, Peggy Shumaker
Do Not Resuscitate, John Bargowski
Prom Gown, John Bargowski
Namesake Triptych, Marie Tozier
Gullible Hope, Anne Coray
Holos, Olena Kalytiak Davis
Here It Is, Olena Kalytiak Davis
Particle Accelerator, John Lunberg
When Painters Started to Believe, Didi Jackson
‘What You See Is What You Get’, Didi Jackson
The Problem with Glaciers, Charles Rafferty
Weather Report, Melissa McKinstry
Dissociatio, Brandi Nicole Martin
Daughter Of E.V.E. [E-Vivo Uterine Environment], Sasha Stiles
Stupid Virtuous One, Craig van Rooyen
Steelhead, Craig van Rooyen
The Thermopolium, Dorianne Laux