A dark movie theater.

Champagne and Oysters

GARY ZEBRUN
I suppose Bruno had one admirable human quality: he liked movies, especially old ones. When people said, there must be something you respected about your father, I’d say rien in a nod to my Francophile mother and add, well, he did save the Ziegfeld.  

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Excerpt from Radio Big Mouth

ANA HEBRA FLASTER
On that last normal afternoon in the barrio, I was where I always was after school, chasing skinny hens in my Abuela Cuca’s yard, the smell of hot rubber wafting from my grandfather’s stamping machine in the shed. I played at Abuela Cuca’s house every afternoon.

Poetry Feature: Poems from the Immigrant Farmworker Community

MIGUEL M. MORALES
Days into the promise of a new year, resolutions plentiful, blossoming, / seven farmworkers were shot and killed harvesting mushrooms in Half Moon Bay. / Those of us who sprouted from families, whose hands and backs worked the land, / waited for news of our farmworker siblings.

The Bee-Eaters

GEORGINA PARFITT
The teeth of the excavator are wet. The cage opens, hovers, and grips a mouthful—some floor, some outer wall, some window frame, the glass disappearing with a tiny, tinkling sound.

Cover of Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare

Review: Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare

Review by MARIAH RIGG
Comfort is not the right word to describe Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s work, though it is true of how I felt spending time with the characters and settings of her debut collection, so many of which resembled the people and places that populated my own childhood.

Using The Common in my first-year seminars has been fun, fruitful, and helpfully startling for these classes.”

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