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Eruptions Distruptions [by Catharine Stimpson]
On Tuesday, April 20, I was walking down the narrow footpath of Cambridge Grove, an ethnically mixed street in Hammersmith in West London. I was one of the many stranded and stalled in…
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The Trouble Clef – Findings | 24 April 2010 [by Lera Auerbach]
Here are some of this week's findings, confirming to the idea that life may indeed be worth living: This is a wonderful TED talk on creativity, pressures, self-destructive tendencies that artists are prone to,…
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“Longing Sonnet” [by Megin Jimenez]
Though wandering is the mark of Sundays,This ramble masks a marching order.(A mind-state, I’ve read, of neural pathwaysAkin to brains with compulsive disorder.)You wouldn’t understand it if I told you,But the body you made…
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He’s dead, Gym. [stealth post by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darlink Bleaders, It’s Saturday and I’ve spent the whole day running around the East and West Village on a puzzle hunt called DASH. It happened in cities all over the country today, same puzzles,…
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Graham Greene Goes to Havana [by David Lehman]
Here's to William H. Pritchard, an old-line English professor who takes his reading seriously and writes about it for the Sewanee Review. In the Winter 2010 issue of the venerable journal, Pritchard reviews an…
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PAUl TILLICH: PART 5; Martin Buber [by Matthew Yeager]
PAUL TILLICH PART 5: Mysterium Tremendum, Martin Buber, In some of the typing about Tillich, and particularly about Einstein, I have found a dry taste forming in the top of my mouth. Never good. …
