The Iconoclast
The Fiamengo File: Votes For Women
After 1832, about one in five men had the right to vote. Almost half of adult males, though, were still not eligible to vote when they accepted the call to […]
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The Voices of the Ghetto Still Address Us by András Mezei
translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (September 2015) Seven decades after the Hungarian Holocaust, a child survivor confronts the modern reader with the living voices of that […]
The Looking Ground
by David P. Gontar (September 2015) I drew beside eternity It held as plain as cake Thus neighborly and nigh My heart did quake more>>>
The Dawn After
by P. David Hornik (September 2015) The dawn after the night you die is peaceful as the dawn before that night. Birds chatter the same way. more>>>
Moving On
by Dilip Mohapatra (September 2015) You perhaps have grown tired of me and do not respond to my anxious calls nor to my frantic messages. You look the other way […]
Jays
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 […]
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Gen Paul Valley’s
Monsoon
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>>>
Hanging Wallpaper
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 […]
The Smell of Death
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 […]
Bruce Jenner and the American Prospect
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 […]
“Real” and Its Limitations
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 […]
The World is Collapsing Around Our Ears: Some Thoughts of the Decline of Popular Music
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 […]
“Environmental Racism” Divides and Diverts Activists
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 […]
Revisiting Hydra Post-Chernobyl
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 […]
