Archive
- summer2012
DEMOCRACY IS TROUBLEMAKING with Lewis Lapham
CONSIDER THE SNOWFLAKE: complexity and fragility
PERPETUAL MEADOWLANDS: among the reedbeds of the Hackensack
OCCUPY BY ANALOGY with Christopher Mackin
POETRY: Olivia Ciacci, John McKernan, and Rich Murphy
ON GIVING A DOG A BAD NAME: the battle for history on film
COME IN UNDER THE SHADOW OF THIS RED ROCK: “The Waste Land” on stage
TOWARDS THE NEW CITY: Fiat finds a use for the poor
DOWN THE ROAD WITH THE REST OF AMERICA: a report from the endless highway
THE VALUE OF ACCESS: what is film really worth?
- fall2011
ON NETWORK CULTURE with Kazys Varnelis
BONNIE COSTELLO'S hummingbird fable of PROXIMITY & DISTANCE
THE WAR ON CONTINGENCY or The Outsourcing of Commerce to the Consumer
RAQUEL FERNÁNDEZ on economists not understanding economics
POETRY: Christopher Mulrooney, Gerald Yelle, and Susan Marshall
CRIMINALS AND COMMODITIES: immigrants in the American free market
COAL PAINT and quarterly portfolio statements
FICTION: The Hungarian by Elizabeth Wray
OCCUPY WALL STREET and Hoovervilles
THE LESSONS of Hyman Minsky
THE BBC'S KIM GHATTAS remembers Beirut
- springsummer2011
THE CONSTANT REVISING of Sylvia Plath
ON COAL-GETTING and other essential efforts
DOUBLE HUSTLE: Rick Ross is real
PETER TEMIN asks what's so "NATURAL" about that?
POETRY: Katherine Holmes, Quinn White, and Leonard Gontarek
UNION BY DESIGN: Atosha McCaw on the art of movements
THE STRADDLER ON STAGE: Dan Monaco's Trousers
FICTION: Peter Davis' Treatment
CHANGE THE RULES says Dean Baker
THE CEREBRAL Variety Circus
- fall2010
JAMES KWAK spots oligarchy advancing
INSIGHT a la BERNARD LONERGAN by way of Richard Liddy
BARRY OBAMA, consultant & president
POETRY: David Scronce, Rodney Nelson, Nathan Gunsch
THE DEVIL'S IN THE REVEL (casino): images and words
AKIRA KUROSAWA'S YOJIMBO and the revolutionary administrator
FICTION: Eddie Lombardi's Frinky
RESOURCE and remedy
REMEMBERING Rane Arroyo
- springsummer2010
JAMES KENNETH GALBRAITH takes on the predators
SYLVIA PLATH and the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
ON STAGE: Todd Pate's Too Far Gone...
INGENIOUS FAKES
GUSTAVO LLARULL on ROMAN POLANSKI
POETRY: Jessica Murray, Aleksey Porvin, Anis Shivani
OLGA NIKOLOVA'S "Entries"
FICTION: Travis Mills' The Hunter's Song
- fall2009
FANNY HOWE writes of Simone Weil and George Oppen
SCULPTURE by ELEANOR STRIDE
CREATING MOSES with composer YOAV GAL
FICTION: Andrew Bissaro's Tim and Callie
APHRA BEHN sensing trouble in Oroonoko
BRINGING UP THE BONES and looking at love
GREAT LEAPS
POETRY: Emmanuel Merle, Elizabeth Murphy, Rodney Wittwer
BLENDING ME SOFTLY at the hands of commmercial culture
- springsummer2009
- fall2008
PETER DAVIS urges us to Remember, Imagine, Choose
THE WASTE LAND, as minstrel show, SENDS UP DA CLOWNS
FOOTBALL & CONSPIRACY, two proud American industries
INTRODUCTION TO THE BODY subjects, texts, loved ones
MEGAN REED'S collages of communication
POETRY: Karen Rigby, Taylor Stoehr, William Stafford
BOTH SIDES OF THE CAMERA
FICTION: Todd Pate’s American Ghost Murder
GOODBYE, OUR CHILD! George W. Bush enters his plea
- springsummer2008
AN EDITOR HAS HER SAY
AN EDITOR HAS HIS SAY
EMILY DICKINSON HAS HAD IT with this bloody war
FICTION: Greg Bennetts' Going Places
COMMUNIQUÉS from classical music's long march
MARK JOHNSON'S PAINTINGS illuminate cinema
POETRY: William O'Hara, Elizabeth Murphy, Frank Arthor Drake
THE CRIME YOU NEED when the Mob is not enough

RAISE THE FLOOR as the permanent upside collapses
STAND, DON'T DELIVER: the buildings of New York
SCULPTURE in low relief by SAM DUKET
FICTION: Alan Walsh's When the Wood is Green
ROBERT FROST and SOCIAL MEDIA must be a joke
POETRY: Rane Arroyo, Mark Terrill, Rebecca Morgan Frank
OBLONGS UPON SQUARES