Issue 1: Pursuits of Happiness

AFM’s inaugural issue, themed Pursuits of Happiness, explores all facets of what it means to reach for joy, pleasure, satisfaction, grace, desire—or whatever other euphemism comes to mind when you think of what it means to be in pursuit, or to be happy, or both—as well as the experience of feeling these concepts most acutely in their absence.

Interviews with Juliana Huxtable, Bruce LaBruce & Susanna Moore.

Prose by Hanif Abdurraqib, Emanuele Coccia, Maya Fuhr, Jazmine Hughes, James Ivory, Ana Kirova, Ellis Jackson Kroese, Sophie Mackintosh, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Daphne Merkin, Justin Smith-Ruiu, Merritt Tierce, Tony Tulathimutte, Fan Wu, and Mimi Zhu.

Fiction by Ashani Lewis, Michael Barron, Lucie Elven, Madeleine Dunnigan.

Poetry by Hera Lindsay Bird, Jason Schneiderman, Delilah McCrea, Rachel Long, and Nick Makoha.

Art by Walter Scott, Maya Fuhr, Max Guther, Marie Jacotey, Tyler Kai Jones, Bruce LaBruce, Isabel Okoro, Heather Sten, Matilde Viegas et al; cover by Charlie Engman.