Fiction
R. B. Glaser, "Michael Jordan, In General"
Lauren Acampora, "The Physical World"
Richard Pevear, from a new translation of The Three Musketeers
Pia Z. Ehrhardt, "Running the Room"
Deborah Baker, "City Walk"
John Haskell, "Laurel Canyon"
Poetry
Kathy Nilsson, "Infant Scholars," "The Procuress"
Timothy Liu, "Romance"
Max Winter, "10 by 12," "Warning:," "4 by 4"
Matt Zambito, "Physics Walks into a Bar"
Emily Fragos, "The Blind are Sleeping," "An Old Illness," "Chopiniana"
Larissa Szporluk, "The Fungus," "Edgepeople"
Keren Tepfer, "One Story and a Slap"
B. H. Fairchild, "Working Men in Their Sunday Clothes"
Rae Armantrout, "Bonding," "Help," "Inscription"
Ciaran Berry, "The Sphere of Birds"
Heather McHugh, "Exposé," "Little to Be"
James Grinwis, "Winter Files," "Connective Astronomy"
Matt Donovan, "Portrait of the Whirlwind in Job as a Passenger Pigeon Flock"
Brian Hoffman, "With a Thick Piece of Charcoal in Massachusetts"
Nonfiction
Robin Hemley, "The Storeroom of Playboy Males"
Wayne Koestenbaum, "Resisting Foucault's Cryptograms"
Säid Sayrafiezadeh, "The Afflicted"
Kyoko Mori, "Yakudoshi"
Melania Mazzucco, "A Mysterious Letter"
Donald Morrill, "Last Hour"
Contest
Rocco DeBonis, Fiction: "Big Casino"
Michelle Disler, Nonfiction: "Blue"
Jennifer Merrifield, Poetry: "Interrogatory," "No. 4: Pre-Fabrication"
Art
Xu Bing, "A Book from the Sky"
Ma Liuming, "Untitled III," "Fen-Ma Liuming Walks the Great Wall"
Chen Shaoxiong, "Street-Opera, Paris," "3rd Street—Gedachtniskirche, Berlin"
Zhang Huan, "To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond," "Window," "To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain"
Song Dong, "Stamping the Water, details," "Burning Photograph, video stills"
Cai Guo-Qiang, "Inopportune: Stage One," "Inopportune: Stage Two," "Tornado: Explosion Project for the Festival of China, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C."
Issue 46 is out now! Featuring new work from Diane Williams, Steve Almond, and Paul Muldoon, plus an interview with Susan Orlean. Look for it in your local bookstore or order a copy online!
Phillip Lopate, Diane Williams, and other renowned writers spoke at the Journal's last event, "Writing by Numbers: A Panel Discussion on Academia and the Arts," on April 2. Watch it here.