Each issue arrives in the reader’s hands as an artifact throbbing with potential and strangeness, new names and old names in wild conjunctions and brave forays, a journal to drive the collectors of the future into acquisitive frenzies.

One of the contemporary literary magazines with real vision — and they are in short supply.

Black Clock measures the temper of the turning world — a journal of ideas, provocations and cultural leaps, with some of the best writing anywhere.

Singular, idiosyncratic, and little mysterious, Black Clock has become one of America’s leading literary journals since its inception three years ago.