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Kurosawa Comes Back!
Faithful readers know that a retrospective of thirty Kurosawa movies was recently shown at the Film Forum in New York City's Houston Street, and we had the good fortune to get a running commentary,…
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An Example of Sartre’s Concept of ‘Bad Faith’; or, Why Simone de Beauvoir Had To Go To Chicago To Discover Multiple Orgasms With Nelson Algren [by Jim Cummins]
This is a passage from Part II, "Patterns of Bad Faith," from Chapter Two, "Bad Faith," in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness (Editions Gallimard, 1943; English translation, The Philosophical Library, Inc., 1956). "Take the…
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Amy Lawless, Guest Blogger March 14 – 20
This week we welcome Amy Lawless as our guest blogger. Amy is originally from Boston and lives in Brooklyn. Her first book of poems, Noctis Licentia, was published by Black Maze Books in 2008. …
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As the crow flies… [by Amy Lawless]
According to the encyclopedia of the people, the phrase "as the crow flies" means the "shortest route between two points." This is because crows are the smartest birds and they cut a lot of…
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Robert Hershon Presents a Poem by Penelope Jane Reid
This poem by Penelope Jane Reid appeared in Hanging Loose 41 and later provided the title for Smart Like Me: High School-Age Writing from the Sixties to Now. SMART LIKE ME They put me…
