ISSUE 32.3
APRIL 2026
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by gene kim
love at first sight is bs because love makes you look twice.
You look once and do a double take
Because you see these golden lights
And wedding bells are going off in your head
In your mind you’re already in white—
love letter to a girl whose name ends in i
by josie wu
because summer rippled through our wrists like a
disease, speckled and honest.
With breath broken over your
splintered lip,
by derek engen
A tavern roars inside your eggshell body.
Your stagnant feet are boats, marooned in ice.
Beneath your nose is acrid fruit, rotting.
by max zhang
from FILM NOTES ON A GOD WHO DREAMS WITH THE SKY PAINTED NEON: A Documentary
Aging is just learning new definitions for numbers. Is changing
numerical figures to human ones.
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Commentary
From Young to Bold: Youthful Resistance in Persepolis and at Present
by grace guernsey
I have a confession to make: I had my first legal drink before I read my first graphic novel. Luckily, I’ve since amended this, casting aside my graphic novel virginity with Marjane Satrapi’s memoir, Persepolis. With my “new year, new me” mentality and a renewed commitment to read my physical TBR before spending more money on books, I (literally) dusted off the copy of Satrapi’s work sitting on my bookshelf and dove in.
Image: Universal Pictures
From the Archives
commentary
How We Choose to See Cassie Thomas Matters
by madeline wasson
While the trailer for Promising Young Woman might lead you to believe that main character Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is merely a woman tricking unsupposing sexual predators into attempting to assault her while she feigns intoxication, her character is much more complex than that. This is something which becomes more apparent as her background, and prior experiences with sexual assault, are revealed.