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Please enjoy our Summer 2023 issue, FACING THE THING. If you like the writing we publish, join our mailing list, leave a donation, and check out our archives.

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Editors: James Baxter, Kit Eginton, Erica Eisen, Cat Pierro, Sandow Sinai, and Piper Wheeler

Editors Emeriti: Michelle Bentsman, Caroline Lemak Brickman, Hannah Coolidge, Sam Feldman, Avi Garelick, Austin Gross, Michael Kinnucan, Sasha Panichkin, Lenna Pierce, Élan Reisner

Web Development: Austin Gross

Web Design: Ellis Calvin

Marketing Intern Emeritus: Eric M. Gurevitch

Contributors

Writers: Sarah Ackley, Bilal Zenab Ahmed, Anna Aizman, Mulugeta Alebachew, Bonnie Alexander, Clement Alexander, Julian Alexander, Milton Alexander, Ari Allyn-Feuer, Rico Altman-Merino, Anonymous, Bethlehem Attfield, Jaclyn Backhaus, Emily Balsamo, Megan Barickman, Grace Barin, Root Barrett, Joshua Batson, b’b b’b, James Beatty, Galen Beebe, Michelle Bentsman, Rachel Berkowitz, Lara Bernstein, Sanders Isaac Bernstein, Chris Bisignani, Jen Bisignani, Misha Bitoslivkin, Hannah Blair, Kelly Bolding, Brad Bolman, Katie Bradshaw, Andrew Branch, Caroline Lemak Brickman, Daniel Brooks, Katy Burnett, Ellis Calvin, Michael Cavadias, Lisa Cerami, Isaiah Champion, Aron Chang, Courtney Chatellier, Tessa Cheek, Mahdi Chowdhury, Wesley Ryan Clapp, Hannah Clark, Joni Alizah Cohen, Emma Jane Cone-Roddy, Zach Conn, Nicole Contaxis, Isabel Cooke, Hannah Coolidge, Misha Crafts, Stephanie Elizabeth Creaghan, Lucas Culler, Cultura Plasmic INC, Jena Cutie, Sam Dean, Samantha Demby, L. Desharnais, Katya Donets, W. T. Dore, Matthew J.X. Doyle, Colin Drumm, Eliot D’Silva, Roisin Dunnett, Olivia Durif, The Editors, Kit Eginton, Nathan Eisenberg, Philip Engel, the Facebook Trump Group, April Fei, Eric Noah Feldman, Sam Feldman, Tamara Fernando, Rya FitzGerald, Avi Flamholz, Josh Fleet, Ben W. Fletcher, Lia Friedman, Zack Friedman, F. J. M. G., Flynn G., Thomas Gaflan, Leah Gallant, Ge Gao, Teal Gardner, Avi Garelick, Dina Gatina, Laura Genes, Victoria Giang, Jules Joanne Gleeson, Ezra Glenn, Elizabeth Bidwell Goetz, Matthew Goldin, Dennis Gravey, Ova Gray, Spring Greeney, Leland Grigoli, Austin Gross, Eric M Gurevitch, Clarissa Marie Hart, Tobi Haslett, Corey Heiferman, Christine Heller, Hope R. Henderson, Robert Henderson, Baird Henny, Paul Hermanson, Adrienne Herr, Nicole Herr, Nicholas Hiromura, J. Holler, Brandon Hopkins, Erin Horáková, Dorothy Howard, Allison Howe, Debbie Hu, Sophie Huber, Fen Inman, Julian K. Jarboe, Andy Jordan, Odelia Kaly, Abram Kaplan, Jonathan Paul Katz, Raja’a Khalid, Catherine Kim, Michael Kinnucan, Jessica Kirchner, Ben Klug, Rose Knapp, m.o. kng, Marcel Knudsen, Yuliya Komska, Rachel Kranz, Alexander Krasna, Charlotte Krontiris, Jesse Kudler, Noah Kumin, Danya Lagos, Casey Lange, Sadie Lansdale, David Lansdowne, Emily Laskin, Gil Lawson, Dominick Lawton, Amy Leavitt, Benjamin Leider, Brian Libgober, Ethan Linck, Victor Boy Lindholm, Eleanor Athena Liu, Matt Longabucco, Wendy Lotterman, Grace Lyon, Charlie Macquarie, Raphael Magarik, Ahmad Makia, Gabriel Malchik, Raji Manjari, Daniil Markovich, David Markus, Josette Marsh, Katie Marshall, Christina Martin, Mordecai Martin, Tamara Masri, Brian Mayer, Earl McCabe, Anna McConnell, Kristen McConnell, Chris McKelway, Jeremy McKey, Mikayla McVey, James Meador, Sarah Mendelsohn, Steve Mentz, Natalia Meschaninova, Steven Michalkow, Evelyn Millard, Daegan Miller, Daniel Mizrahi, Daniel Moraff, Ainsley Morse, Molly Moses, Yasmine Musa, Mary Mussman, Alexandra Myshalov, Dora Nesakani, Matt Nestor, Chris Neubert, Ben Carter Olcott, E.R. O’Rourke, Ray Osborn, Isobel Palmer, Sasha Panichkin, Julian Francis Park, Ulysses Pascal, Andrew Patterson, Vicente Peláyez, Matthew Pellegrino, Samuel Pepes (An AffectiveEphemera Brand), Pia Peterson, Deborah Rose Peña, Sara Pheasant, Lenna Pierce, Cat Pierro, Natasha Plotkin, Jen Polachek, Kit Pribble, Jason Priestley, Sasha Puchalski, Myagmarsuren Purev-Ochir, Claire Rabkin, Rabbi Mordechai Rackover, Justin Raden, Talia Raft, Adrian Randall, Joshua Reaves, Sean Redmond, Jeff Rehnlund, Élan Reisner, David Richter, Eliza Rose, Katy Rossing, Julia Rosso, Marybeth Ruether-Wu, James Rumsey-Merlan, Divya Ryan, Graham S., Emily Sachs, Corie Sanford, Bret Schneider, Carina del Valle Schorske, Joshua Schwartz, Ilya Schwartzburg, Chiara Scully, Mason Seale, SER, Bela Shayevich, Creed Shepard, Gabi Shiner, Irina Shostakovskaya, Sandow Sinai, Scherezade Siobhan, Weston Smith, Sergei Sokolovsky, Hannah Sparwasser Soroka, Joseph Spece, Daniel Spielberger, Ida-Verné Stanfield, Mamie Stevenson, Megan Stockton, Sam Stoeltje, Antonia Stringer, Alice Sturm, Malika Sughdi, Hannah Taber, Ojo Taiye, Michael Angelo Tata, Alexandra Tatarsky, Abigail Teller, Nicholas Thomson, James Townsend, Bailey Trela, Florence Vallières, Otto Vangelis, Various Authors, Jane Vincent, Rebekah Volinsky, Ryan Walach, Roger Wallace, Adam Weg, Zach Wehrwein, Alexander Wells, Yaqing Wen, John West, Piper Wheeler, Chloé Wilcox, J. Andrew Wilhite, Etha Williams, Kate Williams, Dubrick Wilson, Emily Winter, Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Ryan Wong, Vicki Weiqi Yang, Jeannie Yoon, Abraham Younes, Bradley Young, Claire Zakiewicz, Dov Zeller, Jason Zouave

Illustrators: Asif Ahmed, Elena Atnagulova, Emily Balsamo, Naomi Bardoff, Michelle Bentsman, Claire Bidwell, Fontaine Capel, Wesley Ryan Clapp, Tom Dyne, Kit Eginton, Evangeline Gallagher, Leah Gallant, Daniel Gizo, Jo Hylton, Mehveş Konuk, Lawrence Lemaoana, Rose Lewis, John Loxterkamp, Charlie Macquarie, Katie Marshall, Almagul Menlibayeva, Rob Modini, Zachary Nash, Jon O’Neill, Sasha Panichkin, Rebecca Rau, Mithu Sen, Sahara Shrestha, Antonia Stringer, Tom Tian, Florence Vallières, Nora Whelan, Dov Zeller, Ravi Amar Zupa