: I’m reading a Martha Nussbaum essay right now called Love and the Individual. I’m halfway through but I think you’d like it. She talks a lot about Greek Philosophy. She like, writes about it, and she’s talking about this woman who wrote a story about a woman who had an experience with love, trying […]

A photograph my father found in the apartment where he grew up: a Parisian street circa 1944, a barricade. A shadow splits the facade of a café, sunlight whitens the hair and foreheads of boys. If I were to touch the metallic carcass of the old van, toppled on its side, that obstructs most of […]

Author’s note: How do deep time and personal intimacy relate? What can Earth’s tectonic structure teach us about the cyclicity of love? Diagram and language sourced from Earth Structure (van der Pluijm & Marshak, 1955) and John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World, this piece explores the unexpected parallels between geology and human connection. My […]

On each Fence Book page, the “Buy the Book” link will take you to one of the below independent booksellers in the United States. Here we present the stores where Fence Books and many other indie titles can be found. ♦ Above left: City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue.San Francisco, CA 94133 (415) 362-8193. ♦ […]

“El sueño de la razón” (2008), Myra Barraza. “I celebrate my permanence in the eye of the beast”: six women writing from El Salvador This folio features the work of six women writers from El Salvador across three generations, writing from the period of the Salvadoran Civil War to the present. They reveal a continuity […]