December 15, 2017
If you have holiday money to spend or gifts still to get, a few of our editors chime in with their favorite books of the year:
I read a lot of literary sci-fi this year, most of which were technically published prior to 2017 (Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad, and Ted Chiang’s The Stories of Your Life and Others, for example), but for me the big mind-blowing novel ...
December 11, 2017
Mikko Harvey
Bird Call Association
Andre got up and gave a crow call, the same one
he gave every year—well, maybe a little sharper
this time around, but still not enough to take the cake,
so he sat down.
Thirteen of us sat in a circle. Sat in a circle
of metallic chairs in the Gamemaster's basement.
Jessica, a newcomer, tried a hawk ...
December 08, 2017
Sneak Peak! Take a look at the Editors' Note for Pleiades 38.1, due out on January 15th:
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Editors' Note
Recently, when discussing this issue of Pleiades, we found ourselves rehashing the ending of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Junot Díaz famously refutes the last words of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and its colonial anxiety (The horror! The horror!), when after Oscar loses his virginity to Ybón, he writes ...
December 04, 2017
Rodney Gomez
Calvarium
Do you know
that in Teotihuacan
families buried
their loved ones
under their homes?
They couldn’t bear
to unfasten
their own lightning.
Then I discovered
the elegant falsity
of believing the dead
can listen.
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This toe is a plectrum.
Two breasts calcified
by mouths
stuffed with thorn.
Mother, where
have you ...
