The Iconoclast

by David Solway (September 2015) The jays hang in the huckleberry, pillaging pink from the blossoms, scarlet from the berries. They shove aside the tiger swallowtail sipping decorously from the […]

Gen Paul Valley’s

by Sutapa Chaudhuri (September 2015) Obliterate all paths across the scorpion trail— the venom deadly, fill up, overflowing, the empty fate lines imprinted on my palm.  more>>>

by James Como (September 2015) Alone, she sits in a straight wooden chair, moving only her eyes, and watches the wallpaper with despair as a breeze teases her neck, saying […]

by Bibhu Padhi (September 2015) Let the things come to me as they do, In their own natural order, using their own words, completing their own wish to find a […]

by Sha’i ben-Tekoa (September 2015) Is it just me or have others shuddered at the tragedy of this erstwhile apotheosis of American male physicality? In 1976, Bruce Jenner took home […]

by Wyntner Woody (September 2015) Tell me, have you ever been a 16th century Scottish king? “Real,” as used in the U.S., is a style of expression actors hear a lot […]

by John Broening (September 2015) Consider two songs, both of them titled “Just the Way You Are”: the first was released in 1977 and was one of the best-selling records […]

by Lorna Salzman (September 2015) In East Liverpool, Ohio, a hazardous waste incinerator has been operating since 1993, with uncontrolled emissions – over three thousand tons of toxics annually including […]

by David Solway (September 2015) Revisiting the Greek island Hydra, after the passage of more years than it’s good for me to count, not from choice but because the use […]

by G. Murphy Donovan (September 2015) “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” – Winston Churchill Donald Trump […]

by Bradford Tuckfield (September 2015) I have loved logical fallacies ever since I took a deductive logic class in college. To be more accurate, I don’t love the fallacies themselves, […]

by Mark Gullick (September 2015) Much sport has been made recently concerning the career path of the average British politician. Travel smoothly from graduation to internship, from SpAd (or special […]

a review by Jerry Gordon (September 2015) To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “Lebanon is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Unraveling the Lebanese enigma is the objective of a […]

by Norman Berdichevsky (September 2015) I looked forward with much anticipation to the largest ever and most expensive (170 million kroner, or $30 million) televised dramatic series entitled “1864” dealing […]

by Joe David (September 2015) Exactly one hundred years ago several million Christians were brutally murdered. Among those were about 250,000 to 300,000 Assyrians. According to a statement by the […]