Thomas O’Grady 10/12/21 Thomas O’Grady 10/12/21

Visiting James Joyce’s Grave with Anthony Kerrigan

I have not yet made it to James Joyce’s grave.

Joyce Peseroff 10/12/21 Joyce Peseroff 10/12/21

On Christopher Jane Corkery’s “Love Took the Words”

Corkery’s grasp of poets—and poetics—graces each page.

Tony Schwalm 10/12/21 Tony Schwalm 10/12/21

Just Can’t Picture It

Hopelessness has triumphed in Afghanistan.

Grace Singh Smith 10/12/21 Grace Singh Smith 10/12/21

Drinking Up Old Tears

Bharat, India — that gracefully-shaped hurt containing the home I still seek.

Shilpi Suneja 10/12/21 Shilpi Suneja 10/12/21

A Scattering of Marigolds: Death, Migration, & Covid-19

For many years I wondered whether my life would have been better had I stayed in India

Sven Birkerts 7/6/21 Sven Birkerts 7/6/21

Roth

In the case of Roth/Bailey, we witness the collision between corporate bottom-line thinking and public opinion.

Ginger Eager 7/6/21 Ginger Eager 7/6/21

Shifting Baselines

It’s possible to create systems that are visionary for their time and also must be changed over time.

Chandra Ganguly 7/6/21 Chandra Ganguly 7/6/21

All in God’s Hands

One of them said, “I know of at least twenty people who have died in India.”

Dan Hunter 7/6/21 Dan Hunter 7/6/21

Brain Training

The skill you practice online does not provably transfer to a skill in life.

Olena Jennings 7/6/21 Olena Jennings 7/6/21

The Embodiment of a Word

A thread can convey as much as a word.

Umang Kumar 7/6/21 Umang Kumar 7/6/21

Inspiration and Expiration: The Banality of Respiration in India's Second Wave

Delhi, with its pretensions to almighty power and its vulgar display of privilege, was brought to its knees.

Julia Lieblich 7/6/21 Julia Lieblich 7/6/21

The Woman Who Came Back

I had read that weavers see the cloth as having a soul whose colors give off poder, power or heat.

Askold Melnyczuk 7/6/21 Askold Melnyczuk 7/6/21

Apropos of Nothing, Zero to the Bone

DeLillo’s sentences operate on a vertical as well as a horizontal axis.

Rishona Michael & Lara Stecewycz 7/6/21 Rishona Michael & Lara Stecewycz 7/6/21

College 2021

We begin our new lives, or restart our old ones, with the knowledge that we’re capable of more than we knew.

Douglas Penick 7/6/21 Douglas Penick 7/6/21

Amid The Stars

In writing, solitude and society are always joined.

Steven Ratiner 7/6/21 Steven Ratiner 7/6/21

A Community of Voices: The First Year of the Red Letter Project

This was another reminder: hope, too, is contagious.

Mosab Abu Toha 7/6/21 Mosab Abu Toha 7/6/21

How Easy is it to Take a Shower?

I think I should keep my clothes on while having a shower. Or maybe not?

Peter Balakian 4/6/21 Peter Balakian 4/6/21

Denial, Lies, & Fear: Democracy in Jeopardy

A democracy cannot be based on lies and its lethal companion denial.

Ginger Eager 4/6/21 Ginger Eager 4/6/21

Nail Polish on Nickels

Maybe this ideal of higher education as a liberalizing experience reflects nothing more than class naiveté.

Ken Edwards 4/6/21 Ken Edwards 4/6/21

Notes from Brexitannia

The depredations of Brexit have still to make themselves fully felt in Hastings, but those of the pandemic have.