Andrew Ridker reflects on the relationship between dishonesty and storytelling: “I write to impose a measure of control in my life. To shape my own reality. The difference is, I can distinguish between life and fiction.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
Reflections on a Line by Anna Akhmatova*
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“The sea that tumbles onto shore is not the sea / we waded in as kids. We’ve changed its nature.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Cows
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“The problem was excusable, almost: / that they thought there should be a place / in the world that would welcome them. / But why?” A new poem from Steven Kleinman.
Arts & Cultural Critique
RING AROUND THE ROSEY
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“Swaddled in sweet fiction / they will rise from the ground again / laughing like the cheaters they are.” A new poem from Kim Roberts.
Arts & Cultural Critique
PROTECTION BY EINAR JONSSON
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“Your wings are institutions, and therefore / too slow. / They weigh you down.” A new poem from Stephanie Burt.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Gazing
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“so now we […] may nightly observe […] the deft undoing of what we once / had thought would long endure.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Two Poems
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“And then there will be another election, / and then the takers of bribes will be shown the door, / or possibly fed to the dogs.” Two new poems from Stephanie Burt.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Chuppah
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“This is / why every day I thank God / I was born a woman.” A new poem from Julie R. Enszer.
Politics & Society
Bullshit Jobs
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In this review of David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, Miki Kashtan explains what bullshit jobs are and how they can help us understand “the rightward turn of so many voters around the world.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
Coming To Istanbul
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“The Ottoman historian pours you / tahn and wine into the sunset. // Follow the lights on the bridge / into the chandelier of the sky.” A new poem from Peter Balakian.
Ecological Transformation
Book Review: The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
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Deena Metzger calls Dahr Jamail’s new book a record of “the terrible knowledge, moral anguish, and great love of a journalist who embeds himself in the physical reality that the natural world is suffering.”
Taking Back Christmas from the Capitalist Marketplace
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Rabbi Lerner calls upon Christians to take back Christmas from the grasp of the capitalist marketplace.
Arts & Cultural Critique
“As ‘Infinity Goes on Trial’, All There Is – Is”
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Aubrey L Glazer asks: “how does this devotional poetry relate to, and even sing, like prayer in a post-secular context?”