Silver Fern for Lilacs
By M. T. Whitington. A changed New Zealand emerges from the Christchurch terror attacks.
Notre Dame, Burning
By Rachel Trousdale. “Our Lady, did we make you? Did you make us?”
In Which I Collect Names After the Mueller Report is Released
By Pamela Hart. The findings are trembling limbs across the U.S.
The Caliphate is History
By James Toupin. ISIS loses its grip on Syria.
Untitled
By Joel Allegretti. It’s a doctor’s note. No, it’s a protest sign. No, it’s a eulogy.
Beauty Not for Burning
By Peggy Brightman. The marvel and resilience of the burned Notre Dame de Paris.
When Shit Gets Heated
By Michael Zinkowski. Fires now extinguished in Notre Dame and Southern black churches yield ash for the future.
The Fable of the Bees
By Nicole Callihan. Bees have found a new way to quench their thirst.
Lines (On the Floods in Mozambique)
By Prince Bush. In the wake of Cyclone Idai, Mozambique’s ocean flooding was so vast it was visible from space.
Robert S. Mueller III Explains π
By Susan Carroll Jewell. “Like an incalculable series of everyday lies, pi can never be fully known, but we keep searching…”