The Iconoclast
Is Israel Prepared to meet ISIS Threats on its Northern and Southern Frontiers?
Source: AP Photos Attention has been brought to bear by recent activities on Israel’s northern and southern frontier by ISIS in Syria and the Salafist affiliate in the Sinai, Ansar […]
New Year’s Eve terror attack foiled in New York state
From Local SYR A New Year’s Eve terror attack has been foiled by police in New York state. According to officials 25-year-old Emanuel Lutchman, who has been charged with attempting […]
Middle Class Beastliness
Man, as far as I know, is the only creature who can envisage his own extinction: not only envisage it, but enjoy doing so. Deadly new viruses, collisions with asteroids, […]
The Establishment “Radicals” of the Modern University
Matthew J. Franck writes in
Paris attacks ‘directed by one man in Belgium’
From the French edition of
Three Child Survivors
Translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (January 2016) I. THE 20179TH more>>>
Srinagar, December
by Sutapa Chaudhuri (January 2016) It is winter here. The tulips in the Mughal Gardens stay more>>>
I’ll not talk to you anymore of that sea
by Gopikrishnan Kottoor (January 2016) I’ll not talk to you anymore of that sea, Or of mighty things, that overpower us with such lightness. Perhaps that blue cannot be explained. […]
Two Poems From a Sequence: Nightmare Versions
In these bizarre times our own nightmares can seem a refuge. by Evelyn Hooven (January 2016) LODGED HOMELESSLY Assigned a space In less than an alcove Across from […]
Ali Wheatley’s Party Story
by A. Human Being (January 2016) December 20, 2013: Arkham, Massachusetts, USA What if you had a day when everything…went…wrong? And it was simply this . . . all the […]
Muslim convert jailed after sending vile Facebook threats to female MP
From the I am a Muslim… do you trust me enough for a hug?’ To which the correct answer was, obviosly, NO!
The Well at San Gimignano
by James Como (January 2016) Remy was a whore and her husband Dickey a 24-carat prick who thought he had thrown his best friend, Andre, and Remy’s only true love […]
Brown University Apologetic but Puzzled
by Lorna Salzman (January 2016) The administration and board of trustees of Brown University remain puzzled at charges that the university has failed to achieve an acceptable policy that maximizes racial […]
Disappointed Literary Authors
by Richard Kostelanetz (January 2016) A few years ago I drafted an inventory that, though it has profound truths worth sharing, I could not figure out how to publish appropriately. […]
The Thousandth Anniversary of the Danish Conquest of England
by Norman Berdichevsky (January 2016) One of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved poems and the most often cited as a popular choice for a national anthem instead of the current […]
“Let’s [NOT] Kill All the Lawyers”
by David P. Gontar (January 2016) Courtier: Sire, the peasants are revolting. Tsar: Yes, aren’t they? – Ken Solin One of the most puzzled-over lines in Shakespeare is “The first thing we […]
