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
Author’s Note: My poem comes from an ekphrastic workshop hosted by the writer and artist Jay McCoy. As inspiration, he offered up a cull of photographs with fuzzy origins. This one called out to me
Director: Hyun kyung KimReleased: April 26, 2023 (Visions du Réel Film Festival, premiere)YouTube Trailer In the preamble to the documentary film, Defectors, directed by Hyun kyung Kim, a montage made with a map and scissors
Qui Entendra Nos Cris? | Published by Éditions de l’Observatoire, Jan. 2024Translated from Farsi (Afghanistan) to French by Zaher Divantchegui Author’s Note: The story you are about to read is not an ordinary tale. It is
Peter Beinart’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, January 28, 2025), constructs a specific narrative for Jews wrestling with Israel’s actions in Gaza and its dire consequences. The title is perhaps misleading;
Kabul Airport, 2024 | Mixed media on canvas Artist Statement I am Ali Rahimi, an Afghan artist working in the field of painting. In my works, particularly in my recent paintings, I utilize a
~ He said, You’re different from all the gringas. I know I am. Sometimes I sleep but sometimes I lay with my stomach gurgling and think about it: The difference between me and a gringa is
Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928), a pioneering Modernist author with a bilingual mind and comic wit(photo courtesy Galway City Museum, Ireland) It is a foggy day in March 1916, and British Resident Magistrate Robert Sparrow can’t
Kraków, Lesser Poland (Małopolska), Poland | Photo: Alexander Zvir Author’s Note: This poem sprang out of the experience of crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland, seven months after the 2022 Russian invasion began, and
Translator’s Note: Kagay-an and a Love in the Time of an All-Out War (2018) unfolds in the early 2000s, during former president and kleptocrat Joseph Estrada’s “all-out war” against Islamic separatists and communist insurgents in the Philippine
Communiqués by Maria Galina / Russian and English, bi-lingual edition Translated by Anna Halberstadt & Ainsley Morse.Cicada Press, New York. (2023-24) $22.00. Those Absences Now Closest by Dzvinia OrlowskyCarnegie Mellon Press, Pittsburgh. (2024) $20.00 Maria Galina (b.
Consistency is the hallmark of a well-developed body of work and this is precisely what we see from Chris Hero. While he is adept at many mediums, including watercolors, oils, and acrylics, he views the
