Douglas Penick 2/22/22 Douglas Penick 2/22/22

Without a Foothold Found

We exist in this world, endlessly devouring and excreting data.

Joyce Peseroff 2/22/22 Joyce Peseroff 2/22/22

On Tom Sleigh’s “The King’s Touch”

The King’s Touch is an extraordinary pleasure not to be missed.

Jess Skyleson 2/22/22 Jess Skyleson 2/22/22

A Source of Poetic Respiration

Computer-generated poetry might be exactly what we, at this time, truly need.

Kate Tsurkan 2/22/22 Kate Tsurkan 2/22/22

The Rise and Fall of Foto & Video Magazine

Although Foto & Video is no more, with it Dmitry Kiyan shaped modern Russian photography as we know it today.

Sven Birkerts 12/14/21 Sven Birkerts 12/14/21

Exposures

Looking at old photographs from the time of my parents’ youth, I think how complicated such looking is.

Sam Cha 12/14/21 Sam Cha 12/14/21

Lloyd Schwartz's “Who's on First?”

Lloyd Schwartz is, by any measure, a potent force in American letters.

John J. Clayton 12/14/21 John J. Clayton 12/14/21

How To Heal Parkinson’s

A lesson from my mother: stop fighting the loss.

Julia Fiedorczuk 12/14/21 Julia Fiedorczuk 12/14/21

Notes from a Strange War

I think what we witness on the Polish-Belorussian border is a war — a strange, new kind of war with new forms of violence.

Dan Hunter 12/14/21 Dan Hunter 12/14/21

Eye to Eye

We need to bring artificial intelligence out of the corporate shadows and into the light.

Woody Lewis 12/14/21 Woody Lewis 12/14/21

The Bear Behind Bannon

He has never wavered from his objective: attaining the power to disrupt our democracy.

Julia Lieblich 12/14/21 Julia Lieblich 12/14/21

It’s Different When It’s Your Mother

Was it wrong to single out one boy for care in a country full of disabled children?

Kai Maristed 12/14/21 Kai Maristed 12/14/21

Sleeping Beauty – la belle au bois dormant

Paris has suddenly woken up, after a couple of years of shuttered R&R.

Mark Pawlak 12/14/21 Mark Pawlak 12/14/21

What Rhymes With Afghanistan?

Recent events have made me reflect on the nature of political poetry that is inaccurately designated as “of its time.”

Kate Tsurkan 12/14/21 Kate Tsurkan 12/14/21

Words of the Living and the Dead

Chernivtsi brought me back to the world of the living.

Helen Benedict 10/12/21 Helen Benedict 10/12/21

A Lonesome Journey to Freedom: The Hidden Struggles of LGBTQ Refugees

LGBTQ refugees, trapped in the brutal camps of Greece, are unprotected and rarely talked about.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 10/12/21 Thomas Sayers Ellis 10/12/21

Folkcal Fraim 5

Some photographs guide the world back to itself by pulling the world apart, then putting it back very quickly.

Andrew Grainger 10/12/21 Andrew Grainger 10/12/21

The God Gap

If God works in mysterious ways, Luke’s death is entirely too mysterious for me.

Dan Hunter 10/12/21 Dan Hunter 10/12/21

The Real World

If it’s real for ten minutes, it’s real enough to injure.

Shahriar Mandanipour 10/12/21 Shahriar Mandanipour 10/12/21

Abandon Hope, All Abandon…!

Recently the Islamic State took aim at the only remaining wealth of the people: their hope.

Brian Marley 10/12/21 Brian Marley 10/12/21

Ebook Piracy: Some Pros and Cons

Publishers should think seriously about what may be gained from illegal downloads rather than what may have been lost.