Hal 9/13/21 Hal 9/13/21

Flesh Love All

This issue’s cover star, Flesh Love All is a photo series by Japanese photographer Hal, where he vacuum seals families and couples in their home environment

Louise Coghill 9/13/21 Louise Coghill 9/13/21

The Fire

Looking at the ‘sickness’ that occurs in the environment, Louise Coghill’s photo series documents a fire ravaging a 25-year-old family home

Tzy Jiun Tan 2/9/20 Tzy Jiun Tan 2/9/20

Becoming Beetles

“Once there was more song than birds, / and the birds did not mind because they had trees” – a new climate-focused poem by Tzy Jiun Tan.

Samantha Neugebauer 10/7/19 Samantha Neugebauer 10/7/19

The World is a Great and Perfect Animal

“Sometimes I imagine myself as the piece of her womb that made her crazy” – new in fiction, a haunting short story by Samantha Neugebauer written from the perspective of a sea urchin.

Vamika Sinha 10/7/19 Vamika Sinha 10/7/19

ruin

A personal meditation within an existentially fraught world. New in poetry, by Vamika Sinha.

Rastra Raj Bhandari 7/1/19 Rastra Raj Bhandari 7/1/19

The Mountains Are Melting: Climate Change in Nepal

Rastra Raj Bhandari discusses climate change in Nepal in this new essay.

Tzy Jiun Tan 1/8/19 Tzy Jiun Tan 1/8/19

Hazed

“After we finished crying there was still a lot to do” – Hazed is a short collection of poetry on the total penetration of the palm oil industry in our daily life, as well as its oft unseen effects on animals, plants, and indigenous communities.

Carlos Páez 8/19/18 Carlos Páez 8/19/18

A Concert for Plastic Bottles

How can humans begin to befriend plastic? This piece stems from an assignment that involved creating a 5-minute concert where both humans and a mass of empty water bottles were considered part of the audience.

Vamika Sinha 4/22/18 Vamika Sinha 4/22/18

air turns to fire in the cold

The air burns where I sleep / you trudge in almost-snow / The resetting of alarm clocks / let the wind slip / through your dreamcatcher...