The Ryder

A Memoir as Historical Fiction by John Bob Slone I was thinking recently about the time I met punk-rock’s poetic high priestess, Patti Smith. It

A Star is Born samples black, queer, and immigrant experiences like items in a buffet, but it fails to delve deeper.  By  Yaël Ksander  

Slave hunting requires whiskey….A new play looks at racism in the IU community in the middle of the 20th century by Bill Breeden    

By Tom Roznowski “Life isn’t always what one likes”: a line from Roman Holiday, the 1953 Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. Pairing

A few facts about the fiction in this issue When we started publishing an annual issue showcasing fiction from Bloomington writers, I hadn’t realized I

By Filiz Cicek John F. Kennedy in a 1963 speech declared, “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the