Edited by Kathleen Cullen & Rick Schober
May 1, 2026
ISBN 9798234043887 / Paperback / 186 pages

Carrying forward the momentum of our debut, Issue 02 features interviews with playwright and activist Karen Malpede (Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths, 2025) and multi-award-winning interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and author Nihaarika Negi (Hunger, 2025), alongside new work from conceptual artist and composer Beatie Wolfe (imPRINTING, 2023–2026), artist and author Elberto Muller (Graffiti On Low or No Dollars, 2023), No Wave icon Lydia Lunch (Paradoxia: A Predator’s Diary, 1999), poet and punk oral historian Gillian McCain (Please Kill Me, 1996), essayist and literary critic Sven Birkerts (The Gutenberg Elegies, 1994), multihyphenate visionary Dario Calmese (founder of The Institute of Black Imagination), visceral sculptor Kennedy Yanko (Epithets, 2025), and artist, poet, and DJ Juliana Huxtable (Mucus in My Pineal Gland, 2017).

Additional contributors:

A, Jess Adeyemi, Solape Adetutu Aidukaitis, Sharisa Akìgbógun, Olúwatúnmise Otolórìn Akintoye, Jean Ash, Paul atten Barlow, Tom Barragan, Christian Belli, Sarah Bevington, Carolyn Maria Biscello, John Branson, Amy Caycedo-Kimura, Aaron Chapman, Clodagh Daly, E. P. Eustis, John Evans, Justin Fletcher, Jonathan Frizzi, Adria Furio, Lin Hasburgh, Ashley Hawken, Wendell He, Yuyu Kappos, Ellena-Maria Kerschbaum, Joseph LaMonda, Mark Lee, J. A. López, Andrés Maginnes, Al Meyerhofer, Michael Murphy, Alan Nizami, Lance Norman, Chad Obaji, Godwin Parker, Larry Pooladvand, Pariya Randolph, Joseph Resende, Otto Lara Rubio-Goldsmith, Christopher Sauter, Yamuna Shields, Erin Lee Simonova, Polina Smith, J. D. Sommer, Willow Stoichkova, Heliana Supranowicz, Edward Michael Sussman, Kaz Thorburn, Matthew Tivey, Lauren Tosca, Kevin Tost, Raya Vásquez, Edwin Williams, Treat

Cover photo: Kitten, Italy, 1936. Photograph by Herbert List (1903–1975). Courtesy of Magnum Photos.