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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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Proserpine’s Island
… Proserpine’s Island Not knowing enough to come in out of the rain, I walk the ramparts of Enna’s … Gulf of Gela, washing southern Sicily, the poet Aeschylus died, brained by a tortoise-shell dropped by a … internal organs and heart. Indifferent to the relics, Mike points dejectedly to the marble tomb on our left. A printed …
Shapes of Things to Come
… Shapes of Things to Come Soviet Communism; A New Civilisation? By Sidney and … Le Play quietly declared, “No! the coal miner.” Le Play died in 1882. He spent a lifetime in travel, wanting to know … life involves freedom of discussion and debate, but it also compels loyalty to the final decision or “line” of …
Deep Empathy
… Crisis Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica for VQR and for a website called livehopelove.com . I had come to say a few words and then to be quiet, to … I did not want to talk, but I had to. Andre was in the audience. He introduced himself afterward and smiled that …
The Deviant Self: Everyman As Vandal
… he has already made his visit. Sooner or later, he will come. There are traces of his presence in schools and parks, … property both public and private by teen-age hoodlums reveals no purpose, no rhyme, no reason.” So another … “for fun” but I have not intended “for fun” the maimed bodies of the children who were involved in the crash that …
Geneva to America
… insecurity and is at the same time its origin. Tariff competition is replacing competition in armaments, and is in … freedom of the seas and on respect for the rights of neutrals. The sanctions, purely preventive in the first instance, … pact. But this arrangement seems insufficient from two points of view. In the first place its terms are not clear …
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A Polar Turn of Mind: Finding Peace and Quiet in the High Canadian Arctic
… anticipated the air had a lettucey crispness. Nunavut is a composite word that, in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit … a Great Shopping Experience”), where a two-liter of Diet Coke, I found, is C$4.50, a box of Capitaine Crounche … done some hiking, but never far from town and always at a Defcon Two state of polar bear vigilance. One of these hikes …
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