… of a ruling class that came closer to being medieval European than Main Street American, The rhetoric of … their defensiveness that transparent, the bizarre that common among them. Forewords emphasize the. distance between … skills to prominence. Such hopes traced the pressure points of a dividing and developing society. Ruffin’s …
Poetry
On Learning Ada Lovelace’s Father Was Lord Byron Is programming not a kind of poetry? Ones and zeros of the heart. The language of unseen relations between things, Lovelace once said. If I have to send another email today, I will liquefy. I will hold my …
… of all yourself Alone in sunlight in the afternoon. Nothing dies in the earth among the roots: Thrust down your hand and …
Editor's Desk
… the kind of striking, expansive photography that has come to define this magazine for the better part of two … who have spent the past year exploring East-West “collision points” in the context of Russia’s recent aggression. They … the ravages of plastic in the Earth’s waters. This issue also includes Sofi Thanhauser’s essay on how the “war on …
… of the less familiar varieties. The idea of revolution comes to us as a political conception from the Greek … to hereditary loyalty to his rule. They held the strategic points throughout the Empire. There were also some great … hostile to the Shogun. From them he exacted a strict obedience. He made them come up once a year to his capital in …
Poetry
… what those lost enthrallments meant. He knows they weren’t false, though behind the last unlocked knob, a chalk-faced …