In our October 2025 issue: Seth Harp reports on Donald Trump’s military parade and the state of the US armed forces; David Velasco remembers his friend Brent Sikkema; Rachel Pearson writes about the place of empathy in medical education; Garth Greenwell revisits Giovanni’s Room and the purpose literary “affirmation”; Nicole Flattery on Jane Bowles; and a new story from Matthew Shen Goodman.
