Patrick Kelly designed elegant, extravagant, impeccably detailed clothing. Derrick Austin commemorates his work.

A spectre is haunting ordinary life—the spectre of institutional decay.

Anjuli Raza Kolb’s two poems, “9/11 poem” and “Qur’anic Asterisk,” about the difficult materiality of memory and the delicacy, humor, and eros that somehow survive, even in damaged life.