11/12/2025
🕳️ Introducing Triple Canopy’s thirtieth issue, Not Nothing 🕳️
Is a hole something or nothing? Looking into the abyss, we tend to see oblivion—or worse. But holes are made of more than emptiness, and they do more than mark absences. From plot holes to impact zones, cosmic voids to legal traps, holes serve as forms for feelings as well as fodder for philosophy and fantasy. Not Nothing delves into apertures, orifices, and portals, as well as the holes that structure what we see and know. Following Pope.L’s assertion that “lack is where it’s at,” Triple Canopy’s thirtieth issue recasts the void as a source of pleasure and potential.
We’ve launched the issue with an introduction by deputy editor Rachel Ossip (.intellectual) and editor Alexander Provan () on living with holes and embracing “have-not-ness”; an essay by Rachel Hunter Himes () on the paucity of criticism that meaningfully attends to the work of Black artists; fiction by Ismail Ibrahim about the cosmic connection between a h***y loner, a p**n actress, and a mysterious hole in New Mexico; and an essay film by Sam Keogh (.sam) that journeys through the holes of London.
We’ll continue to publish Not Nothing in installments through the spring—stay tuned!
Not Nothing’s title-page type, Holey Moley, was created for the issue by Corinne Ang ().
Visit the link in our profile to read the first contributions to the issue.
