Guernica Magazine

In Search of Radical Care

Our May issue, with Rafael Frumkin, Sena Moon, Sara Petersen, Yoko Uema, Wayne Koestenbaum, Tuệ Sỹ, and more
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This month was, I confess, an accident — the kind that our turn this year to digital monthly issues is designed to invite. As we reviewed the pieces in conversation with each other, we found a’s invocation of Empedocles, to help “a soul dressed in a body” become. Simply that, wherever the verb leads.

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