
Issue #2 of Arcturus magazine is now complete, and a few themes emerged over the course of October. One was the shifting of seasons as the earth tilts back on its heels and the nights grow long and sharp. Another was the incursion of nature into the realms of man, and vice versa, and why that dichomoty is an illusion.
Poetry
“Above Derwent” and “Coleslaw / Slaw Slaw” by William Doreski
“Braving It” by Sarah Wolbach
“How to Survive the Winter” by Ting Gou
Fiction
“Glaushaus” by Madeline Kobbo and Miles Klee
Excerpt: By Gaslight by Steven Price
Excerpt: The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter by John Pipkin
Nonfiction
“An Orange County Almanac” by Jason M. Brown
Art
Astronaut series by Jason Brueck
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Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic who lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is the author of 'A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature' (December 9, 2025 from Simon & Schuster), and his writing has appeared in Esquire, WIRED, Scientific American, Inverse, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He is also the founding editor of Alderbrink, the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and the Chicago Literary Archive.
