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Carolyn Heilbrun on Barzun, Fadiman, and Trilling [by Barbara Fisher]
When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling. By Carolyn G. Heilbrun Carolyn Heilbrun is best known for her books of feminist theory, Toward a Recognition of Androgyny and…
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Summer of Fruit Tarts–Cherry-mania [by Barbara Hamby]
Oh, cherries–how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. You are a small bomb of sweetness that explodes on the tongue like a day in summer. There are so many ways to…
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Double Bottom [by Lera Auerbach]
Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach When I was twelve, my parents took me camping near Lake Inyshko. Supposedly, in this lake, Yemelyan Pugachev buried his stolen treasure. The treasure was never found…
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A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes [by Witold Gombrowicz]
Who hasn’t wished for a painless way to find out what the big shots of philosophy – the Hegels and Kants, the Nietzsches and Sartres – thought of the human condition? It has never…
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The Will to Live [by David Lehman]
“They say that Schopenhauer [pictured] is pessimistic. That is not saying very much. [His] is a grandiose and tragic vision which, unfortunately, coincides perfectly with reality.” – Witold Gombrowicz, A Guide to Philosophy in…
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Three Restaurant Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Acorn On Oak The hamburgers, giant meatballs Was all they really were but for ONE MILLION DOLLARS you got It just EXACTLY like you wanted it Or I sure as hell did! Oh,…
