Ravi Mangla
Ravi Mangla's most recent novel is The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). His stories and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, American Short Fiction, Paris Review Daily, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Find more of his work at https://ravimangla.com.
In Ravi Mangla’s “Arcadia,” a retro video game seller goes in search of a game rumored to be a CIA psyops experiment. What he discovers—through a surrealist turn in the narration—is the depths of his own grief.