Archive
- fall2015
EMINENCE DOMAINS
CITY WITH WALLS: Billionaire's Row and crystallized inequality
THE COST OF LANDSCAPE: Southern California's lawns
THE HISTORY OF THE GOP: Heather Cox Richardson
NO FATS, NO FEMMES, NO BLACK: Gentrification of the Queer Bedroom
ENCLAVIZATION IN THE NEW CITIES & SUBURBS: Kazys Varnelis
POETRY: Dicko King's Doggerland
PURSUING PROPERTY but not happiness
THE CASE AGAINST PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS: Dean Baker
MONEY OVER EVERYTHING: Charting Hip-Hop's Cash Flow
- winter2015
OUTSIDE THE CONFINES
SURVIVING TIANANMEN, ENVISIONING DEMOCRACY: Yang Jianli
THE PAGEVIEWS MODEL OF CULTURE: regress and monetize
POETRY: Colin Dodds, Nels Hanson
THE RATTLING BONES OF EMPTY CULTURE: Peter Sellars
DIGITAL RECORDS OF INCARCERATION: an annotated bibliography
ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND ADAPTATION: Daniel Schensul
“LONG ISLAND RICHARD”: a Straddler film
- winter2014
THE HABIT OF FREEDOM
SEEING SURVEILLANCE: Kazys Varnelis and Trevor Paglen
BERGMAN IN 1968: the disaster cinema we need now
THE DRONE PROBLEM: in conversation with Micah Zenko
THE SAVAGE MACHINERY: Peter Temin and economic crises
TELLING STORIES ABOUT WAR: in conversation with J.A. Moad, II
POETRY: Fanny Howe, Taylor Stoehr
ON PAUL GOODMAN: in conversation with Taylor Stoehr.
CHRISTMAS TRUCES: human bonds across national boundaries
- summer2013
MEMORIAL AND MONUMENT
THE ENSLAVED GENRE cinema and injustice
DIGITAL PROLETARIAT: the spectacle of the “Internet”
“AS HAVING LIFE” reflections on the gem of the mall
MAKING SLAVERY SAFE: Jefferson and Monticello
ON THE PLANE WITH HILLARY CLINTON
POETRY: Charles Weld, Michael Ruby, Simon Perchik
FICTION: Ilya Kilger's absurd installations.
ON TELEVISION: you are watching “The Bachelor”
- winter2013
THE LAST SECRETS with Trevor Paglen
THE CONSULTANT WE DESERVE: on Barack Obama
MUDDLING TOWARDS THE NEXT CRISIS: James Kenneth Galbraith
SECRETS AND LANDS
POETRY: Dell Lemmon, Frederick Speers, Nathan Gunsch
IF NO HANDLE TURN KNOB: burnishing the monument of proper English
FICTION: after the election
CAN'T LOSE COUNTERFACTUALS: bad thinking makes good TV
- summer2012
DEMOCRACY IS TROUBLEMAKING: Lewis Lapham
CONSIDER THE SNOWFLAKE: the fragility of complexity
PERPETUAL MEADOWLANDS: among the reedbeds of the Hackensack
OCCUPY BY ANALOGY: 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: Kazys Varnelis
BONNIE COSTELLO'S hummingbird fable of proximity and distance
THE WAR ON CONTINGENCY: 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: 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: commercial culture's search for beauty
- springsummer2009
- fall2008
PETER DAVIS urges us to Remember, Imagine, Choose
“THE WASTE LAND” as postwar minstrel show
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: 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
