Issue 2: Mind Games

Issue 2: Mind Games is an inquiry into and expression of the puzzles our thoughts create—how they shift, deceive, and reshape across love, memory, and identity. With essays, fiction, photography, and poetry, the issue takes on affirmations, revisions, and the rewrites we make to our own stories, turning assumptions inside out. In the work gathered here, our contributors have taken delicate wrecking balls to all kinds of mind games, gracefully shattering assumptions or elegantly interrogating fears. 

Cover by Nan Goldin

Interviews with Kelsey Lu, Puja Patel, Garth Greenwell, Ralf Webb, Darian Leader and Jamieson Webster

Prose by Hannah Black, Mona Chalabi, Jamie Hood, James Ivory, Dimiter Kenarov, Kesha, Ana Kirova, Catherine Lacey, Sarah Miller, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Orlando Reade

Fiction by Mariel Franklin, Hannah Gold, and Stephen Mortland

Poetry by Poppy Cockburn, Maggie Millner, Nicholas Pierce, and Callie Siskel

Photography by Eleonora Agostini, Olivia Arthur, David Campany, Anne Collier, Kees de Klein, Justine Kurland, Joanna Piotrowska, Tørbjorn Rødland, Lewis Ronald, and Lou Stoppard