Patrick Berry has been publishing puzzles since 1993 and lives in Athens, Georgia.
Shouts & Murmurs
Raising Felix: Google Misunderstood
Hey Google! Where can I buy a brother?
By Julia Wertz
Poems
“Day One”
“Been a long while now coming up / Thought we were past it, thought we’d patched it up.”
By Flock of Dimes
Sketchpad
Your Handy Road Map to Authoritarianism
Turn right at Toxic Masculinity and continue straight through Weakening Checks and Balances.
By Brendan Loper
Sketchpad
Democratic Resistance Strategies
Less polite language on protest paddles, sick burns in the private Slack, and other techniques for sticking it to the Republican party.
By Emily Flake
Shouts & Murmurs
America!: Wake Up, This Decade Has Just Been an Elaborate April Fools’!
Since 2015, you’ve been part of a cinéma-vérité project directed by Jordan Peele, and you’re playing Hapless Liberal No. 61.
By Ali Fitzgerald
Critics at Large
Our Modern Glut of Choice
A mind-boggling array of options defines nearly every aspect of our world today, including shopping, dating, and entertainment. Is such abundance making our lives better?
Poems
“Cirrus”
“ ‘I don’t have time,’ I told / myself, ‘To kill myself: I have / to write a paper on Rimbaud.’ ”
By Rosanna Warren
Cover Story
Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)”
The artist adds some whimsy to her thought-provoking techniques.
By Françoise Mouly
Shouts & Murmurs
You Love the Office
“My deskmate smells like roadkill, just like my roommate. It’s like I never left home.”
By Dennard Dayle