Volume 101
Number 1
Spring 2026
In the current issue, we pause our longstanding commitment to publishing a multiplicity of voices and instead devote the issue to the work of two writers. Since our founding, while our editorial concerns have been global in scope, we have also sought to include the perspectives of writers with connections to Southeast Asia.Sokha Vannak is a Cambodian journalist based in Phnom Penh, known for his writing on the rediscovery of Angkor Wat. In this issue, he responds to our calls for work on shared experience, influence in public life, and vicarious living.Christopher Schutzius, an American writer living in Thailand, responded to our most recent set of calls for submissions with work across memoir, fiction, prose poetry, and speculative narrative. Taken together, these pieces demonstrate a range that resists easy classification while retaining a distinctive sensibility throughout.
We invited work on traditions that resist substitution.
For our call on the afterlives of empire, this essay offers a possible endorsement of the ancient Athenian practice of assigning certain offices by lot.
We invited fiction exploring how friendship is expressed, maintained, or strained in contemporary life. What begins in familiar banter gradually reveals a more complex form of recognition.Scorched Earth
Written for our call on poems of system and sentence, this piece allows syntax itself to carry meaning, revealing how the structures of everyday life can shape the language used to describe them.Emily
We invited work exploring how authority is established, exercised, and contested.The Admiral
We invited work on influence in public life.
We invited work on the uses of art in everyday life.
We invited comments on the rise in reliance on digital experiences.
Digital Experience and Vicarious Living
Environmental Theme Contest WinnerV Homo sapiens
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