Thaila Ramanujam 9/10/19 Thaila Ramanujam 9/10/19

Death On-Demand

Even with terminal, painful imminent deaths, the medical association waffles, forcing physicians to make their own calls and risk prosecution.

Tony Schwalm 9/10/19 Tony Schwalm 9/10/19

Target Practice

Alone in the dark bunker, I shook. I had never been a target. I had never lived in a war zone behind the wire.

John Wronoski 9/10/19 John Wronoski 9/10/19

Everybody Has One

“The good life” certainly sounds like something about which anyone at all might venture an opinion. Indeed, the assumption that we would underlies the very form of the Platonic corpus.

Houman Harouni 8/6/19 Houman Harouni 8/6/19

Three Notes for John Berger

The years to come will inaugurate the search for a type of friendship in art, of which John Berger is, for now, a last great example.

Andrea Gregory 8/6/19 Andrea Gregory 8/6/19

Storage

I look like I don’t belong here. And I don’t want to belong here. I live in a nursing home with no clear exit plan.

Askold Melnyczuk 8/6/19 Askold Melnyczuk 8/6/19

The Sweater You Wear to the Dance: Reflections on Computers, AI, and You

When you cut a robot, does it not bleed? Well, actually, it doesn’t.

Joyce Peseroff 8/6/19 Joyce Peseroff 8/6/19

For Ifeanyi Menkiti

Here are two poems Ifeanyi published in Green House. They are playful and serious, languid and taut.

Thaila Ramanujam 8/6/19 Thaila Ramanujam 8/6/19

Alibi

What role did I, did all of us in the medical field, play in what had too quickly become routine death marches?

Tony Schwalm 8/6/19 Tony Schwalm 8/6/19

White Noise

I knew my next sentence would define me forever in their minds. Was their leader a racist? I had not in my twenty-three years on the planet ever been confronted with the reality of that flag.

Mosab Abu Toha 8/6/19 Mosab Abu Toha 8/6/19

How the Edward Said Library of Gaza Was Born

By the end of the day, what had once been the English department lay beneath a heap of rubble…

Kai Maristed 7/9/19 Kai Maristed 7/9/19

An Angry Shade of Blue in France’s (Real) Great Debate

And so the circle draws a notch tighter around the question of national identity.

Shahriar Mandanipour 7/9/19 Shahriar Mandanipour 7/9/19

It’s Still Night, Mr. Golshiri

Golshiri exposes the multiple hypocrisies and weaknesses of his characters, including the intellectuals.

Andrea Gregory 7/9/19 Andrea Gregory 7/9/19

Grip

Sometimes when things break they can’t be fixed. I’m one of those things.

Tony Schwalm 7/9/19 Tony Schwalm 7/9/19

Accountability and Afghanistan

How ought we, as a nation of laws, respond to allegations of war crimes committed by our military?

Joyce Peseroff 7/9/19 Joyce Peseroff 7/9/19

Posthumous Keats, Posthumous Us

To trace the arc of a poet’s reputation is to consider the fate of one’s own.

Askold Melnyczuk 7/9/19 Askold Melnyczuk 7/9/19

To Have and Have Not: A Regional, National, and International Conversation

In 1976, Cambridge was a reasonable city in which to be poor. Even as a Full Professor, I could never afford to buy a house there now.

Andrea Gregory 4/25/19 Andrea Gregory 4/25/19

How to Feed the Poor

The thing about being poor is that the less you have, the more help there seems to be. We’re on the cusp.

Kai Maristed 4/25/19 Kai Maristed 4/25/19

Starting Next Month, How Will the World Spell Europe?

Since when has blanket opposition become so much more attractive in democracies than, well, the work of thinking things through?

Askold Melnyczuk 4/25/19 Askold Melnyczuk 4/25/19

Abraham Wept: The Future of Higher Education

I used to boast to friends from abroad about the quality and availability of our institutions of higher education. I fear those boasts now sound like PR.

Joyce Peseroff 4/25/19 Joyce Peseroff 4/25/19

Review: Dragging Anchor

What are young poets up to these days? Sometimes they invent a new gamelan, and sometimes they breathe original music through a master’s reed.