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Big Other Folio: Micheline Aharonian Marcom

The current folio includes an excerpt from Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s novel-in-progress, The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends, my…

On the other side of the universe is a woman named Emily whose life I could’ve lived. She loves black…

(with appreciation for Italo Calvino) The City of Serena In the beautiful city of Serena, every old woman wears…

Caveat lector: the following pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.—all published this year in Big Other—are feral, that is,…

By D. A. Powell —for Matthew There is no real cure for love, but there is a dry rub. Honey,…

V E R G E: she sets type by hand and loves how the spaces between letters and between…

Ten years ago, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its…

The Interrupted Blanket the effort to remain ambiguous while your heart is beating —broken heart as shadowplay I stand…

Garden In the first weeks we already knew this was history, that you’d speak of our nakedness, the flat…

Catullus Sails to China (1) Now that my sojourn is circling a drain Should I slow this engine down…