In this issue

• Nevin Kallepalli joins a Shasta County newsroom to report on the concerns and complexities of many politically marginalized citizens in northern California;
• Cynthia Zarin records the atoms as they fall and autocrats as they rise across Virginia Woolf’s war-time diary entries;
• Calvin Gimpelevich flushes away potential misconceptions surrounding the history and politics of public bathrooms;
• Emmett Rensin creates a score of climate change literature, finding notes of hope and grief in everything from the Bible to contemporary “climate dirges”;
• Justin A. Davis considers mainstream depictions of race on the 50th anniversary of Ralph Bakshi’s controversial film, “Coonskin”;
• Anahid Nersessian people-watches over a martini (or two) at L.A.’s storied Taix French Restaurant;
• and, in a short story, Hannah Liberman writes of a possible cancer diagnosis that forces her protagonist to reckon with past relationships and losses.
• Become a member for all of that and more—including essays and features by Marina Magliore, Asha Schechter, Jeffrey Stuker, and David Louis Zuckerman;
• poetry by Rhoni Blankenhorn, Jodie Hollander, Anna Journey, Dalia Taha (translated by Sara Elkamel), and Tess Taylor; an excerpt from Joe Brainard’s “The Complete C Comics” titled “People of the World: Relax!”; and an art portfolio, introduced and curated by Perwana Nazif, and featuring works by Harun Farocki.