Ladies and Gentleman, Your In-Flight Entertainment for this Evening: Late Capitalistic Nausea
Benjamin Kirby’s humorous essay takes us through the absurdity of a six-and-a-half hour Emirates flight
Itthon (At Home)
In a series of personal vignettes, Rose Gove traces their evolving relationship with the country of Hungary
> on my iPhone
A memoir of family, New York streets, grocery items, crushes, and more, made entirely out of iPhone notes.
Passing Parade
In this photographic series, Henry Hu focuses on the stolen moments in between
mint tea: a summertime lyric
A piece of free verse from Rabat, Morocco, where a woman navigates (mis)belonging, visas, and mobility
The Pandemic Radically Altered My Relationship with India. I Don’t Know If I Can Ever Go Back
A personal essay explores navigating the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the surrounding political turmoil, and their effects on identity and belonging
Down and Out in the UAE Badlands
Film camera in tow, Benjamin Kirby heads to Al Dhaid in Dubai, where he meets an enigmatic TikTok-famous travel agent and muses on the urban landscape in this new essay
In the Corners
A wandering poem about traveling through different cities looking for love.
Appa
“remind / my taste buds that they are alive” – in this evocative poem, Thirangie Jayatilake relishes the foods that connect her to families and cities.
what kind of city is florence?
“how to reconcile this heaven of art with the hell you read of in dante’s inferno / of corrupt florentines and popes who abused their office / how to see past the peeling paint / to demolished jewish quarters and feuding noblemen and the scorched poor and their burned-down houses” – new in invisible cities, Jamie Uy writes about her time in Italy.
Californian Encounter
The author encounters a curious man at Union Station. New in fiction
Aircraft Cabin
A tender poem on identifying home in impermanence, movement and transience.
stuart highway
Samantha Neugebauer goes driving with a lover “on the long hairy arms of the earth” in this new poem.
Travelers & Artists: What Happened to the Give & the Take?
We are all guests in the lives of others, and we ought to treat our hosts with not only respect, but also with genuine interest, especially if we travel far to meet them or decide to make art from their lives.
Q Train
A traveler’s poem, set in New York City.
Lady Rocket in Israel
Ruobing Sabrina Zhao traverses across cities and cultures, and ponders the mysterious “Lady Rocket”
To me
In this new poem, Ruobing Sabrina Zhao writes after Kenneth Koch’s “To You.”
self-ish
“In a TV show, I’d be a supporting character you might feel conflicted about. I have spent too many moments of my life aspiring to be white” - inspired by Lyn Heijinian, Vamika Sinha prods at encapsulating identity in writing in this new prose poem.
money
An “open call for hopes and prayers”, Vamika Sinha explores New York as both capitalist hell and heaven.
movie
Inspired by the Tom Misch song “Movie”, a love poem by Vamika Sinha.