January 03, 2018
Now more than ever, in this day and age, in this political climate, we would never have thought we'd be so proud to announce: new issues abound! But they do! Abound! Pick up our latest, hot off the presses. Issue 38.1 of Pleiades features: Folio: Contemporary French Fiction: Jeanne Benameur, Francois Bon, Yanick Lahens, Delphine Coulin Folio: Contemporary Eastern European Poetry: Inga Gaile, Stella Vinitchi ...
January 01, 2018
Paige Lewis DIORAMA OF OUR NEED TO ESCAPE THE COLD WE MAKE X steadies my balance on the outer wall of the zoo. He says that even in their sleep, captive giraffes know they're captive—they don't make that midnight hum in the wild. He wants to connect these stemmy-necked leopards to my crooning, but it's only noon. X reaches up, pokes his finger through the sun, and spirals it ...
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 ...