Two acres of Prospect Park burned this weekend—just one of the many blazes that have popped up in the region thanks to the ongoing drought. Brush fires aren’t common in New York, so the sight was uncanny and, perhaps, a dark portent of things to come.
The city’s parks are havens, and not just for animal and plant life; they facilitate the kinds of exploration pushed to the margins by prejudice and capitalism. For Eric Dean Wilson, that has meant cruising, and in our new issue, he considers pleasure and decorum in public space.
Speaking of what hides in plain sight: Adrian Nathan West writes on open-air drug markets, the existence of which reveal the extent of what we still don’t know about addiction. Will Harrison discusses the images that have come out of Gaza in the past year, which have not been enough to stop a genocide. And in our new issue, Sara Nović describes the “innovators” who cash in on deaf communication while sidelining the deaf community.
Finally, Stephen Piccarella considers two new experimental novels that present a future for a form that’s been made again several times over.
“The entire 2024 graduating class of Philadelphia’s police academy has been dispatched to Kensington, but absent a real plan, they seem mostly to be wandering around and telling idlers to move along.”
“The project of reinventing the novel was merely one stage in the history of the novel; its agitations have been reintegrated into the mainstream definition of the form.”
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