Welcome to Tether, an annual arts journal edited by Trevor Winkfield and Brice Brown. Each issue of brings together an unexpected selection of art, literature, and culture.

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Tether 4 contains

• Salomo Friedlaender’s musings on the work of George Grosz

• Poems by noted German poet Durs Grünbein

• A poem by English Modernist Joseph Gordon Macleod

• Erik LaPrade’s look at the peculiar papier-mâché works of Otis Burger

• Mark Ford’s translations of two episodes from the draft of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus

• An interview between painters Elliott Green and Catherine Murphy

• John Reid Currie’s melancholic poetry

• Paul Grimstad exploring the number 42

• Early photographs by Diana MacKown

• Kreg Hasegawa’s curious short story

• Paul Maziar’s look at pastry chef portraits by Chaim Soutine and August Sander

• Barry Schwabsky’s recounting of an experience with the Farnese Sarcophagus

• A portfolio of Paula Wilson’s vibrant paintings

• Erica Van Horne’s prose poems

• John Yau, Carol Szymanski, and Siv Støldal's playful bee keeper costume collaboration

• Francis M. Naumann’s unraveling of the fantastically cryptic Dada poems by Walter Arensberg