Joseph Grigely tells Ayden LeRoux how he came to create installations from his monumental archive of handwritten notes and how work reframes ideas of institutional access and disability. Performance maker Anna Martine Whitehead, interviewed by Sable Elyse Smith, shares how she drew from her experiences in prison waiting rooms and academia to produce FORCE! an opera in three acts. Painters Rebecca Morris and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung discuss working within abstraction and their shared appreciation for the color pink. Matthew Rice’s poems explore the psychic distress of a night shift at an injection molding factory. A group of teenagers sent on a mission across space battle extraterrestrials and their hormones in Adam Peterson’s short story. In an essay, Paul Chan considers the nature of memories. In Editor's Choice, appraisals of Simón Mesa Soto’s film A Poet and Aja Gabel’s novel Lightbreakers.