Arthur Waskow knows our potential and how far we have yet to go to realize it, and he is determined to give us food for that journey.
Arts & Cultural Critique
A Theory of Everything
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"Perhaps most of all, I miss discussing your theories, Nora. Under the spell of love and a dancing fire, our nude bodies warmed by burning oak and afterglow, we explored without telescopes or complicated mathematical formulas. Free radicals, you called us." A short story by Ron Rindo.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Camus’s Other Plague: State of Siege
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The Plague’s apparent realism displays the ambiguity inherent in every allegory: the literal events in the narration occasionally get in the way of their presumed figurative meaning.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Funicular
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Oh merciful God, please don’t let me die before I’ve used Gaudi’s model in a poem that can outwit art like he cheated gravity & math.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Against Translation and the Ethics of Compassion
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"Against Translation" is a model for dwelling in the unknowable space of compassion.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Screaming Faces Made of Dots
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“I tightened my hold on the snow globe and then slipped it into my pocket. I had never stolen anything before, but I had an idea that the snow globe was meant to be mine—a consolation for the lost bird keychain—that it was a powerful artifact intended to pass from one Hannah to the next. That it had first belonged to the original Hannah, the one who was favored by God.” A new short story from award-winning author Becky Mandelbaum.
Arts & Cultural Critique
How can we protect what we love?
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How can we protect what we love? Deena Metzger reviews latest book by naturalist, Susan Cerulean, who faces the extremity of her father’s Alzheimer’s and the fate of Florida’s shorebirds — two perfect storms.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Death and Amtrak
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On a night train to Albany.
The cars slid North on the tracks
And rain splattered grime
Around the sealed windows.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Piano Bench
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"Right there at one of the long brown tables in the middle of a class I don’t care about, I realize I’m in love with someone from the university, which is funny because being in love with someone from the university is what my husband accuses me of all the time." A short story by Cady Vishniac.
Reviews
Lynnda Targan’s Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Rabbi
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founder of Ms. Magazine and author of Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America, reviews Funny, You Don't Look Like a Rabbi, Lynnda Targan's intimate new memoir about her arduous yet intrepid journey to fulfill her mid-life calling.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Sol’s Visit
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“He was afraid of girls. It didn’t matter how shy or friendly or fat or pretty or plain or desperate the girl was. He was afraid of them all. Then he grew up and his father died and he was still afraid of girls . . ." A short story by Jennifer Anne Moses.