Susan Sontag: Out and In
Volume 6 Philip G. Alcabes Volume 6 Philip G. Alcabes

Susan Sontag: Out and In

Sontag wasn't drawn to write about AIDS because she was (sometimes) homosexual, but because she had been thinking about the ways disease, including her own, is talked about.

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Homo Oblivious
Volume 6 Victoria Amelina Volume 6 Victoria Amelina

Homo Oblivious

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

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Grow Old and Be Strong
Volume 6 Jeff Dietrich Volume 6 Jeff Dietrich

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.

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What is a Homeland?
Volume 6 Mosab Abu Toha Volume 6 Mosab Abu Toha

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.

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Folkcal Fraim 1
Volume 5 Thomas Sayers Ellis Volume 5 Thomas Sayers Ellis

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?

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America
Volume 5 Andrea Gregory Volume 5 Andrea Gregory

America

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

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Running in Place
Volume 5 Kai Maristed Volume 5 Kai Maristed

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)?…

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