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What exactly does the Word create? (by Jenny Factor)
In my John Milton class at Brandeis University (I am there attending school), time spent occasionally talking about God is evidently time spent talking about the relation between literary texts and religious ones.…
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Paris dispatch: waters rising, justice done, talking birds crow, humans aflutter, news spreads [by Tracy Danison]
A remarkably rare candid moment in the world's behavior, "La Femme et l'oiseau" by Parisian engraver and illustrator France Dumas captures a bird in her bird mask, perchance to chatter, perchance to take wing …
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Epigraph of the Month: Felix Culpa wins the day [by Goethe, via Bulgakov]
<<< "Who art thou, then?" "Part of that Power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good." — Goethe, Faust >>> Epigraph to The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). Bulgakov began his…
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Dice-Roll Variations [by Darren Lyons]
Darren Lyonsacrylic, water, sparkling water, and vodka on canvas board; text on cardstock Dice-Roll Variations is a series of painted drawings and poetic captions, inspired by the Abstract Expressionists, New York School poets, and…
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Next Line, Please: Flowering Thyme
This week on Next Line, Please, we were delighted to see so many strong entries from Dr. Lehman's Hamlet-centric prompt. Not only did writers incorporate the richness of Shakespeare's characters, but a zeugma, which…
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Linda Reagan Update: Did She Jump or Was She Pushed? [by Walter Carey]
Editor's note: Walter Carey writes: "David Huntley, my source for this story, is the pseudonym of an executive at CBS who asked that he or she not be named. — WC." See our earlier…
