Home Feature Drag in Tbilisi In a country where queer life remains under threat, Georgia’s drag artists perform for one another — and for history. Photographs by Jonathan Moore read more Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Forgotten Legacy Fiction The Celebration of My Birth Matar, Rain-Blessed Son of Raqqa: Saved by the Wife Tradition Forced Upon Him Feature The Art of Maigret Redesigning a detective’s legacy, one silhouette at a time. Fiction August This man was unbearable, but because he was the first person to be sufficiently violent with me during sex, I let it go on longer than I should. – Anika Jade Levy Conversations What's an Autodidact? Douglas A. Martin and Lauren Elkin speak with Jason McBride about his new book, Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker. Feature Spying on Amelia Biographer Laurie Gwen Shapiro brings Harriet the Spy’s nosy tenacity to her new book on Amelia Earhart and George Putnam. Fiction The King In this 1921 story by Isaac Babel, a “king” of gangsters is informed of an imminent police raid as he prepares to host a Jewish wedding feast. Fiction Michael’s Marriages “Her smile felt stale. Her tongue was orange. Her favorite soft drink was Fanta.” – Myles Zavelo Extract Children Die, and Parents Go on Living When her two brilliant sons died by suicide, writer Yiyun Li turned to the page—and produced the most extraordinary and luminous memoir of the year. Poetry Reasoning with Love “When I heard your voice / it didn’t crack open my chest / at first.” -David Adger Fiction NOT YET “This was no one’s crime scene but my own.” Conversations The pleasures of identity “In a better world, [Edmund White] would have been a professor in Gay Studies” – Blake Smith and Tae-ho Kim in conversation read more Children’s Author of the Month: Wanda Gag Millions of Cats, the oldest American picture book still in print, was the brainchild of Minnesotan artist Wanda Gag. Although she died young, her legacy survives in her beautifully-illustrated books for children.
