Issue 5

Not even here in Berlin, which has made a tradition of pushing, knocking down, leveling, and inverting boundaries. It is therefore fitting, I think, that this particular collection of art and literature tends to incline backwards while slanting ahead toward ingenious angles. We are, all of us, “tattooed intricately / with footprints of history,” as stated so simply in Changming Yuan’s poem, “Believe It or Not, the 5-Agent Principle Accounts for Us All.”