Nixes Mate
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Issue 21/22 · Climate Change
We must avoid fable, myth, the easier routes to understanding through anthropomorphism. Faced with the crisis of extinction, there is no time for such storytelling.
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Many symbols began to emerge from the work we received: the hummingbird, the firebird, the horrifying interplay of fire, flood, and draught.
We are in conversation with the strange and haunting winds.
The wildfires that result in the “skittish sleep of standing horses.”
The extinction of species.
The haunting disappearance of birdsong.
We are in conversation with thoughts we might even entertain on the worst of days, like “a bright purifying asteroid” arriving as immediate catastrophe.
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Hannah Larrabee, guest editor
The Bookstore
Nixes Mate Review Back Issues
Issue 20 · Summer 2021
When billionaires spend ten minutes at the edge of space do we cheer and share their exhuberance, or do we pull hammers, saws, and drills out of a tool box …
ISSUE 19 · SPRING 2021
Boston is creeping back to life. College students travel in packs. Traffic congeals in all the familiar places like crocuses pushing out along the Charles.
ISSUE 18 · WINTER 2021
Among the dislocated shoulders, insurrection, glaucoma, and skies the color and texture of overcooked oatmeal is a hope that the country survives, that the world survives …
issue 16/17 covid 2020
If 2020 could be summed up in one Twilight Zone episode it would be “Time Enough at Last” from season 1, starring Burgess Meredith as the bookworm who …
Issue 15 · Spring 2020
Social distancing is a new literature, a bitter cup of surveillance and incompetance that asks us to accept our ruin with equnamity. We quarantine ourselves with tigers …
Issue 14 · Winter 2020
Welcome to Issue 14 · Winter, 2020. Welcome to an uneasy winter of missiles and summer. Welcome to an uneasy winter of perpetual tardiness and procrastination. …
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