Broadsides

Review of Lorraine Boissoneault’s Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene (Beacon Books, 2026) Living with disability, particularly disability that results from a chronic illness, can and often does feel a bit like being trapped in a sudden storm, a hurricane or a tornado, perhaps a blizzard. Some form of . . .

The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is doneby brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, dis-tilling, sign-painting, lime-burning . . .—Walt Whitman, “A Song for Occupations” To the memory of Henry Bradshaw: foreman, craftsman, grandfather With my Granddad I shared my first beer;It was lager and yellowish clear.We had . . .

Editor’s note: The following text is an edited transcription of a longer conversation conducted over Zoom, available in full below. Joan Cambridge-Mayfield reads “Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-Grant Line” (Volume 67, issue 2) from 39:38–41:50, and Jeremy Jacob Peretz reads Grace Nichols’s “Blackout” (Volume 35, issue 3/4) from 43:50– 46:11. Tell . . .