Close Encounters
- Issue 52
- Close Encounters
The Intellectual Situation
Politics
City of Meh
Samuel Stein
Mere Domination
Richard Beck
Essays
In the Wages for Housework Archives
Emily Callaci
The Second-Term Aesthetic
Dushko Petrovich Córdova
Fiction and Drama
Reunion
Andrea More
The Finishing Touch
Walter Siti
Tsutomu: Code Name Storm
Karen Tei Yamashita
Simpelveld
Nicholas Hamburger
Poetry
Two Poems
Joseph Earl Thomas
Reviews
Not All Women
Dayna Tortorici
Before the Flood
Han Zhang
The Martian Ideology
Matthew Porges
Letters
That’s what ChatGPT told me lol
The Editors
Featured Articles
The decay and disarray are our own, while China rockets humanity into the future.
Issue 52 Close Encounters
- Sinophobic Sinophilia
- The Editors

Issue 52 Close Encounters
- In the Wages for Housework Archives
- Emily Callaci

Issue 52 Close Encounters
- City of Meh
- Samuel Stein

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- Tank and Chamber
- Jeff Nagy
Dunn’s protagonists are almost always isolated and isolating, bristling at connection and rebuking tenderness.
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- You Are Who Eats You
- Justin Taylor
John seemed to be living in an eternal present. But he had a history.
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- The Last Intellectual
- Michael Casper

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- Reconciliation versus Real Estate
- Aaron Timms

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- Big Blue Machine
- Brandon Harris

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- An Established Aberration
- Mack Basham, Joshua Judd Porter

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- Homeward Bound?
- Charlie Dulik
Empathetic Parrot Documentary Will Bring You to Tears
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- Last Week in End Times Cinema
- A. S. Hamrah


























































