Geist 124

Michael Hayward
Reviews
A Russian Brother and his sister

Review of "A Russian Sister" by Caroline Adderson.

Debby Reis
Reviews
A not-totally-accurate introduction to the azores

Review of the Netflix series "Rabo de Peixe" (2023) created by Augusto de Fraga.

Kris Rothstein
Reviews
The messy back of history

Review of "My Grandfather’s Knife: Hidden Stories from the Second World War" by Joseph Pearson

Sara de Waal
Dispatches
Little Women, Two Raccoons

Hit everything dead on, even if it’s big

Christine Lai
Essays
Now Must Say Goodbye

The postcard presents a series of absences—the nameless photographer,

the unknown writer and recipient; it is constituted by what is unknown

Peggy Thompson
Reviews
Have Mercy

Review of "Mercy Gene" by JD Derbyshire.

Michael Hayward
Reviews
subterranean mysteries

Review of "Underland" by Robert Macfarlane.

Margaret Nowaczyk
Dispatches
Metanoias

The names we learn in childhood smell the sweetest to us

KELSEA O'CONNOR
Reviews
Championing Trees

Review of "Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest" by Amanda Lewis.

Patty Osborne
Reviews
Crossing Borders

Review of "Solito: A Memoir" by Javier Zamora

Michael Hayward
Reviews
The Two Roberts

Review of "Turn Every Page" directed by Lizzie Gottlieb

Ian Roy
Dispatches
My Body Is a Wonderland

Maybe my doctor has two patients named Ian Roy, and I’ve been sent the other Ian’s file

Peggy Thompson
Reviews
A moment with holden

Review of "Holden After & Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose" by Tara McGuire.

David Huebert
Fiction
The Business of Salvation

I watch the lights slip and slur on the headpond and think down, toward the dam, the embankment and the long drop of the spillway where the water rests, whirled and stunned

Owen Torrey
Poetry
Short Talk on Summer Ending

... You and I / tried. We tried walking down a street once in fall. / It was night, half light, we found ourselves finding / ...

Molly Cross-Blanchard
Poetry
Here's the thing

"... Blood dripped down my chin. The light / left. After, I googled what it all meant—death, / capitalism, Steffie’s stuffed bunny ..."

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Eleanor Panno
Comics
The Broch

"Every month or so, my mom sends me a picture from a trip we took together."

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Ruby Woodruff
Fun & Fast

Third Prize Winner of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest