Fourth Genre 23, no. 1

In This Issue

Editors’ Note
Joey Franklin and Patrick Madden, “The Audacity of the Essay”

Winner, 2020 Fourth Genre Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize
Sean Enfield, “The Revolution Will Be Revised”

Essays
Negesti Kaudo, “Marginalia”

Anne P. Beatty, “The Daily Cover”

Carol Claassen, “Three Wishes for the Missing Man’s Daughter”

Darius Stewart, “Rogue Soldier”

J. Malcolm Garcia, “In Those Days”

Kelly Magee, “Eleven Ways to Carry: A Self-Quiz in Real Time”

Mary O. Parker, “Sanctuary”

Nathaniel Perry, “Already Wide Enough: Edward Arlington Robinson and the Lives of Others”

Ryan Dennis, “The Sparrow and the Robot”

Jacquelyn Thomas, “Mystery Readers”

Suzanne Farrell Smith, “In the Clouds”

Kristin Barendsen, “How to Live Thin”

Debra Marquart, “At 79, My Mother Decides to Plant Trees”

Clinton Crockett Peters, “Love in the Valley of Death”

Writer as Reader
Jenny Spinner, “Rooting the Black Essay: Gertrude Bustill Mossell (1855–1948)”

Gertrude Bustill Mossell, “Our Women in Journalism”

Review Essays
Kate Carroll de Gutes, “Activist, Essayist, Poet, Woman, Black”
Sarah Pape, “‘A Period of Interval’: Two Books on the Pandemic”
About the Contributors