Literature & Art

Visual Art

The Art of Lena Zycinsky

At the tip of my tongue: Belarus. I was born there in 1986. I left it as many times as I returned, but since 2021 there is no coming back. I come from an artistic

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Reviews

January 6: The Film—It Needs To Go Viral

The January 6 Select Congressional Committee released its final report on December 22, 2022. The report is the culmination of the ten hearings the nation has witnessed on television from June through December at intervals.

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Translations

My Grandfather’s Fate

Sorrow, Uuganbayar Kh, uugan.art/ Uuganbayar Kh was born in 1979 in Mongolia. He earned his degrees in art from College of Fine Arts, Ulaanbaatar, in 1996, and Mongolian State University of Culture and Arts in

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Visual Art

The Art of Morrie Warshawski 

Reflecting on the subject of public unrest—both domestic and international—the role of art in a moment of explosive social change can register as ambiguous among the turmoil. What painting or photo could truly account for

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Fiction

Dorf and the Daisies

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.—Samuel Beckett, Murphy It’s obscene the way she cleaned up. It was a mess. I was a mess. Covered, I was. And she came and, I

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Nonfiction

That Stinking Agreement

The United Nation’s aid convoy to Sare in East Timor Last August, Pope Francis appointed a new Cardinal, Virgilio do Carmo da Silva, from the tiny country of East Timor. East Timor had been a colony

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Poetry

At the End of the World

Clocks will still mark time. Only speechesby the president under siege will sound true. Bombedcities that refuse to fall will be decimated. Spring will stallas if waiting for war to end before it can arrive.Monuments

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Translations

Jean-Claude Martineau: Poet of the Underdog

Haiti 1, Danielle Legros Georges Translator’s Note: Jean-Claude Martineau is a poet of the underdog. Throughout a long career as a writer (as well as songwriter, composer, activist, and statesperson), Martineau has made visible the

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Nonfiction

Flash Nonfiction Project

We’ve often been told that the truth is in the details. After all, details are what give shape to an individual life and clarify it amidst a crowd of people, places, and events. When it

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Reviews

The King’s Touch by Tom Sleigh

The King’s TouchTom SleighGraywolf Press 2022 For years, Tom Sleigh was a Boston poet, a Cambridge poet, and he made poems that seemed associated with the interpretive and bookish spirit of those places, writing poems

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