Victoria Amelina 1/14/20 Victoria Amelina 1/14/20

Homo Oblivious

Yesterday’s “Soviet Man” has morphed into today’s “Amnesiac Man”. Homo Sovieticus has mutated into Homo Oblivious.

Jeff Dietrich 1/14/20 Jeff Dietrich 1/14/20

Grow Old and Be Strong

I watched my 85-year-old wife, hunched over her red three-wheel walker as she pushed towards the line of twenty Military Police dressed in full riot gear.

Dan Hunter 1/14/20 Dan Hunter 1/14/20

Aristo and the Friendly Forest Squirrels

Once again, we are dragged into a race between man vs. machine.

Askold Melnyczuk 1/14/20 Askold Melnyczuk 1/14/20

New Year’s Letter to Oksana Zabuzhko

What can we, as writers, offer a world appearing to invite another universal catastrophe, this time on an unprecedented scale?

Joyce Peseroff 1/14/20 Joyce Peseroff 1/14/20

Pro Publica

Art is for everybody, and as necessary as food.

Thaila Ramanujam 1/14/20 Thaila Ramanujam 1/14/20

Covering the Head to Save the Head

She had become a liability for all groups: those for whom she was too Muslim and for those to whom she was not Muslim enough.

Mosab Abu Toha 1/14/20 Mosab Abu Toha 1/14/20

What is a Homeland?

What I try to convince myself of is that this is temporary, and one day the hope of peace will shine on every roofless house in my country.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 11/14/19 Thomas Sayers Ellis 11/14/19

Folkcal Fraim 1

But where do faces come from — the places before us, the places before ageless poetry and un-aimed photography or have they not come yet?

Andrea Gregory 11/14/19 Andrea Gregory 11/14/19

America

Confusion and division has created a pecking order. I’m close to the bottom in a wheelchair, relying on medicare and disability checks.

Dan Hunter 11/14/19 Dan Hunter 11/14/19

Rembrandt Redux

18 months, 500 hours, 148 million pixels and 186,000 data points. “All that work, for this?”

Shahriar Mandanipour 11/14/19 Shahriar Mandanipour 11/14/19

Why I Became an Iranian Writer

This is how my flesh came to understand the value of a single word…

Kai Maristed 11/14/19 Kai Maristed 11/14/19

Running in Place

Was Progress, the ambition of a society to, well, improve itself, only a brief historical phenomenon that has faded like the Cheshire Cat, leaving us only a jaundiced grin (or a yellow vest)?…