A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family was killed?
Sketchpad
“And Just Like That . . . ,” the Lost Season
Plotlines we’ll never see: Carrie grapples with shoe tariffs, and Miranda moves into the sewers.
Poems
“70”
“I stare at my reflection, and I see / my melody is waning—no surprise, / but only blues take root and hold.”
Poems
“I Was a First Alto in the 1980s”
“I used to sit for hours / at an electric typewriter. / I remember well its hum.”
Poems
From “Sometimes Tropic of New Orleans”
“Honey in my walk, & I lean, now down the Avenue, pseudo-pioneer to a seized / City, liege to a bee.”
Shouts & Murmurs
Dear Pepper: I’d Rather Be Drawing
How dare life require so much of you, when what you were born to do is sit in a corner of the room and watch and draw?
Poems
“Suburban Divorcée”
“Mowing the lawn, it’s revealed, is not the torture / it once appeared as the loved one tore through // the yard in heated fury.”
Humor
The Worst City to Find Love Is Wherever You, Yes You, Live
Several factors were examined to determine that you are the epicenter of a phenomenon that swallows up the possibility of romantic love like a black hole sucking in light.