by Rand Timmerman | Feb 9, 2026 | Nonfiction
The sudden ring of the phone in the darkest part of the night jars me. This is probably not good. “Hey, Corporal. Oops—Lieutenant, how are they hanging?” a very boozy, familiar voice from my past says, slurring his words. I served with him in 1967 in the Vietnam War....
by Alan Stoskopf and Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady | Nov 17, 2025 | Nonfiction
Photo of Svitlana in Berlin by Morris Weiss Author’s Note: The core of this article was based on interviews with Svitlana Petrovskaya, a ninety-year-old Ukrainian woman currently living in Berlin. We had access to her collection of personal letters and...
by James J. Kirschke | Aug 25, 2025 | Nonfiction
James Kirschke (middle) with fellow lieutenants Roger Pullis (left) and Jim Anderson (right).Chu Lai, Vietnam, 1966. When Buddy Spivey was wheeled into my room on the twelfth deck of the Sick Officers Quarters at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital in 1967, all I could...
by Chris Deliso | Jun 15, 2025 | Nonfiction
Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928), a pioneering Modernist author with a bilingual mind and comic wit(photo courtesy Galway City Museum, Ireland) Pádraic Ó Conaire’s Enduring Art of Conflict Narration by Simon Barber...
by Conor Hogan | Mar 26, 2025 | Nonfiction
Palisades Fire in Los Angeles by CAL FIRE_Official, January 2025. Public Domain. The scale of destruction inflicted by the wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles last month is unprecedented. Sixteen hundred buildings incinerated. Nearly two hundred thousand people...
by Lynne Golodner | Jan 22, 2025 | Nonfiction
First stop: Medieval Jewish Prayer House—Középkori Zsidó Imaház American historians say Hungary’s political system is dangerous, but conservatives find inspiration in its Christian government. I expected dark shadows in Budapest storefronts, people yearning for...
by Joanna Chen | Nov 18, 2024 | Nonfiction
A poster left by a participant taking part in a candlelight vigil and silent protest organized as part of the #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies | August 11, 2014 near the United Nations in New York.Photo credit: DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images Late last week, I switched...
by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman | Nov 17, 2024 | Nonfiction
Dad in the beige easy chair, a precursor to the blue chenille chair. Los Angeles, California. 1980sPhoto courtesy of the author The morning after my father’s first heart attack, I took the train from San Diego to Los Angeles to see him. It was December, near the end...
by David Rocchio | Oct 4, 2024 | Nonfiction
Editor’s Note: Consequence has always been on the lookout for impressive drama that deals with our themes. This is one reason why we are so excited to partner with acclaimed filmmaker David Rocchio, the Founder and Director of Stowe Story Labs. In this excerpt...
by Alan Stoskopf and Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady | Aug 17, 2024 | Nonfiction
At first, nineteen-year-old Ilia Kashtalianov was not sure why he started painting the walls of his university dorm room in Kyiv. Once he began, he couldn’t stop. The multicolored images appeared as a hallucinatory mash-up of Chagall folk motifs and ghost-like...
