How do you know when you’ve really seen something? Beleaguered by the 24-hour news cycle and endless scrolling, we are overwhelmed with images, so many that we see each one only for a moment, flashing by but never captured. This flood introduces an anxiety about what’s real. Vision, for people who have sight, is the […]

In “Promenade,” this issue’s ekphrasis, Jameson Fitzpatrick responds to one of Chris Antemann’s porcelain sculptures, Boudoir (2011), in a poem that meditates on the ambiguities of misaligned desires and the problems of aesthetics.

Jane Yeh and Stephanie Burt double down on Claude Cahun in “Self-Portrait as a Double Exposure” and “Mondegreens.”