Nonfiction

“Ah, Arthur is Here” by David Linebarger

by Another Chicago Magazine
Posted on August 8, 2019August 7, 2019

Solve this problem: Your daughter’s playing with a doll, a gift she just received from a friend. The doll is white. 1968: John Carlos gives the black power salute Arthur Ashe wins the first US Open. 1970: Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye the problem of “whiteness” as a standard of beauty Arthur Ashe wins The Australian Open. 1972: Bettye Saar The Liberation of Aunt Jemima 1975 the liberation continues Arthur Ashe outthinks Connors to win Wimbledon “no matter what I do, or where or when I do it, I feel the eyes of others watching me, judging me.”

Fiction

“The Anteater” by Micheala Walsh

by Another Chicago Magazine
Posted on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019

“I help my clients open their chakras, channel their sensual energy, and find their heart space.”
“Heart space?” I ask.
“Yeah…like, you know,” she says, placing her hand just above my left breast. “Many of my clients have trouble with love.”
I stare at her.

Nonfiction

“Maximum Compound: Fight Blood Economy” by Stephanie Dickinson

by Another Chicago Magazine
Posted on August 2, 2019August 2, 2019

Krystal developed into a first-string basketball player, and in junior high she’d been scouted. The acting-out years began and Krystal was sent to Elan, a residential school for troubled teens. It was here that the staff treated residents criminally. Often new students would be told that their throats could easily be cut in the night if they failed to get along with staff and other students.

Nonfiction

“Azar” by Ellen Gunnarsdottir

by Another Chicago Magazine
Posted on July 30, 2019July 30, 2019

When it became clear that Azar did not have the speed, synchronization or physical strength to filet an adequate number of codfish per hour, the manager moved him to the women’s line. He learned to find his station and turn on the intensely bright overhead lamp that would help him see if there were worms that had to be picked out from the flesh of the cod.

Fiction

“A Homeroom Meeting” by Fumiki Takahashi, translated from the Japanese by Toshiya Kamei

by Another Chicago Magazine
Posted on July 23, 2019July 25, 2019

The day before the world was supposed to end, Kasumi woke up in the morning and slipped into her school uniform as usual. She had nothing else to do. Besides, she didn’t dislike school. On the other hand, her best friend, Tomo-chan, had left for a trip a few days earlier, saying she would spend time with her boyfriend. By this time, she would have lost her virginity.

Poetry

“This Sound” by Bibhu Padhi

by Another Chicago Magazine
Posted on July 18, 2019July 22, 2019

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Nonfiction

“Bed” by David L. Ulin

by Another Chicago Magazine
Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

It is in this bed, after all, our bed, that I have most exposed myself, that I have been both sick and happy: secure, protected, and yet in the next moment, utterly, existentially alone. In a real dark night of the soul, Fitzgerald writes, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.