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Fall 2025 Issue 27.2

Featuring essays by Emily Collins, Carrie Messenger, Wendy S. Palmer, Elizabeth Logan Harris, Sibbie O’Sullivan, Stephanie Anderson, Marianne Janack, Suzanne Roberts, Andrew Bertaina, Jeanne Kay, Lindsey Pharr, Debra Dean, Sarah Olson, Beth Alvarado, Jerry Mathes, Brad Aaron Modlin, Claire Hansen, Jeanine Eyre Bee,. Review Essays by Susan Ito and Amy Lee Scott.

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Images of anticipation: VHS snow and TV glow blue, a sealed box of old photos, the back of an envelope, the end of a tunnel, the blind corner of a curvy path, a mirror…

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To Limit Is to Define

To Limit Is to Define

The “limits of the essay,” Aquilina writes, “are not only productive in a definitional sense… but also crucial to understanding what is specific to the essay as a literary form.” Thus, rethinking the essay at the limits is an attempt to discover what is particular to the essay.

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