Criticism
… The Art of Watching Looking at Animals Looking at Us Early in January, a few days into the New … in mid-March, early January belonged to a past life. The recommendation came during my first virtual cocktail hour, … King , it’s wild, we’re loving it. The next day a second recommendation appended one of many check-in emails, then a …
… to discourage all efforts to prevent it, but it has also made the recurrence of war doubly sure by giving it a … by continual fear and danger of violent death, man has been compelled, says Hobbes, to do what is wholly against his … most often made vocal in law-making, government-building bodies. There is, on the other hand, a less accessible body of …
Editor's Desk
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Fiction
… dreary the rest of the world was—was roughly analagous to comparing Xanadu with a federally subsidized … had seen her. Christine wondered about anorexia. She would also like to know, from Maury, whether Maury took drugs, if … laughing and kidding around and acted as if a cop had come to the door of a party. They had been buying scallops. …
Fiction
… a wheeled suitcase nipping at her heels, shoulder-slung briefcase heavy with the 8.5” × 11” excelsior of a vague … like someone looking into the face of a mortally wounded soldier and seeing only his acne. The instructor flipped on the … She thought of the birth but was not frightened. 116-126 By Maggie Shipstead …
Essays
… Trying to Keep Faith: Adrienne Rich’s “Usonian Journals 2000” In the “Artworks (II)” section of “Usonian … Rich’s work of the last two decades imagines and embodies a jazz-inflected process that bears witness to … a temple to greed. Staring into the political abyss, she comes to the realization that “I was no longer connected …