Fresh off winning the 2019 ASME award for fiction, issue 55 features new
fiction from Laura van den Berg, Gordon Lish, T Kira Madden, and Emma
Copley Eisenberg, and more; letters about face masks and puttanesca and
the rapid disintegration of our natural world by R. O. Kwon, Alexander
Chee, and Jack Pendarvis; a searing nonfiction piece by José Orduña that
harkens back to shoe-leather journalism, chronicling his experience at
immigrant-rights demonstrations across the spectrum of activism; oh, and
a 16-page section of mesmerizing photography by Pelle Cass from his
series "Crowded Fields." Read and be renewed!