Presidential Elections in El Salvador: The Lion vs. The Dentist
Apogee Editorial Nonfiction Editor Cecca Ochoa has written an article about the upcoming Presidential Elections in El Salvador. She recently returned from El Salvador after participating as an International Observer... Read More
Ecstatic Mourning: Witnessing Nelson Mandela's Death in Johannesburg
I arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 2, 2013, after a nearly twenty-hour flight that left Philadelphia the previous morning. My family greeted me in the airport with a... Read More
Against a Corrective Narrative
By Scott Dievendorf, Fiction Editor It’s a familiar narrative—our protagonist plunges into the depths of hell, witnesses a world unparalleled to that on earth (horrifying, challenging, against common virtue), undergoes... Read More
WJDC? Would Junot Díaz Cry?
Submissions Close to the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Navigating Feelings of Inferiority By Christopher Soto “When I finished [Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral] I bawled. Wise and immense.”... Read More
Small Town Politics
By Zinzi Clemmons, Managing Editor I am nearing my last day of a month-long writing residency in rural Nebraska. I have spent the time on a farm with a handful... Read More
A Picture Perfect 2013 Family
by Stacy Parker Le Melle I’d just like to say a few unfiltered words about what I see when I see Bill de Blasio with his family. When I see Bill... Read More