Summer 2019
Summer 2019
The Summer 2019 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”
As guest-editor Viet Thanh Nguyen writes in his introduction, “We need to work in environments with a diversity of people to make sure that the views of others who are different from us can check; likewise, we need literature written from a variety of perspectives and by a wide range of authors for the same reason—so that literature itself can demand that we see the world differently from how we normally might.” Featuring new work from Roxane Gay, Elizabeth Strout, James Hannaham, Laila Lalami, Patricia Engel, and many others, the work in this issue is connected by the medley of voices framing contemporary literature.
Introduction
Fiction
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Public Opinion
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Doorway to Darkness
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Mauro and Elena
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Immediate Family
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Stop
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Lifestyle Issue
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Cookie Monster Shares
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I Only Had Eyes for You
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Excerpt from The Other Americans
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Overlong and thus Unsuccessfully Submitted Yelp Review of the Agnes Martin Show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Apr. 24–Sept. 11, 2016) by Anonymous
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Butterfly at Rest
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Welcome Me to the Kingdom
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Am I a Thief?
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Tawny Scrawny Lion
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Hunts and Saboteurs
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Origins
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A Roman Winter
Nonfiction
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Prison in the Age of Euphemisms
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The Person in Question
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Poetry
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River
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Slavish Rhythm
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Dialectic
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Flash
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Felt
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In Twilight