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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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Air and Water
… boyfriends and brothers jostle clutches, pad gas pedals, spit and stare. They are without guardians in the night … all coldly. Pancakes? Good, good. Yes, very nice. Shoelace? Come here let me fix it. On the ground next to his … Shorkreh ’s from mouths of the released. The two sisters studied and ate and painted each other’s face at a small table …
Superstate and Superman
… Jacques Barzun. Atlantic Monthly Press, tittle, Brown and Company. $2.75. Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rist of … state is a “superstate” which has made the individual completely subservient to the group is apparently generally … and inspiring under certain circumstances. The soldier who sacrifices himself to cover the retreat of his …
Indelible Objects
… I stored myself carefully against extinction. When Jack died last summer, I spent a long afternoon in the attic of … only layers of cracking photographs, letters, English class compositions crowned with good marks, but strata of trivial … mind on Keats or Milton or on the pages of some obscure medieval tract. I had been behind the counter in his pharmacy, …
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When the Moon is Full, the Trees Speak in Unison
… mouth open in pain, astonishment or grief,  something will come to fill it, blood or baby teeth  or tiny snakes, the … so many times over we can’t recognize them. Those who come here want us to love them  as their mothers did not, … have no duty to beauty, that land  where the wild go to die, where they’ve slaughtered  all the wolves and wear …
The Impact of Air Travel
… of the Air. By Matthew Joscphson. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. Keep the Peace Through Air Power. By Allan … circle” course might be the shortest distance between two points, but the quickest way across the Atlantic or the … more than Mercator’s projection. In our school-books we studied a great variety of maps, and we got a good general idea …
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Shooting Gitmo: Day Two
… early morning rain. (Louie Palu / ZUMA Press)   I have just completed my second and last OPSEC review of my photographs. … The orange jumpsuits are reserved for detainees who are non-compliant, and after touring Camp 5 (where they’re usually … detainees socializing and taking a life skills class—which points to the possible direction for many of the inmates …
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