Imagine the City
We are thrilled to publish the first act of the three-act sci-fi play, “Imagine the City,” by playwright and writer Darine Hotait.
Of Superheroes and Real Life Villains
When I was in the first grade, I convinced my father to take me to see the original Batman movie. It was 1989.
Soft Architecture // Diary, 15 May 1905
In Memory and Consciousness (1985), Endel Tulving’s theory of memory systems is divided into three types: procedural, semantic and episodic.
A Short History of Hysteria
It was the ancient Greeks who coined the term “hysteria”; Hippocrates, in fact. It means the disease of the movement of the uterus.
Asymmetrical We
Twist the doorknob to the apartment, walk inside, and it’s, “I’m holding a doctor’s letter saying my daughter wants a sex change operation into a man. That true?”
“Liberty Ladies” and Other Poems
Brave banners are wind-dashed and mud-stained, / and hat plumes hang sodden. She does not feel the / sleet, only the iron of her convictions.
“F.O.M.O.” and other poems
I just want to throw in the sack, / flap jack, slap it up and saddle on / been sick of this race since long ago / lethargy evolved from let-it-go,
Somewhere Between Black and White
I think Rick Ross was playing. Some track about droptop Maybachs and spraying champagne on Puerto Rican girls with fat asses.
Brooklyn — Beirut
Brooklyn – Beirut is a reflection on leaving Beirut, the city and the state of mind, which is trapped somewhere between the Mediterranean and several nations set ablaze.
Muchijoon
I have always felt a visceral lifting in my stomach when I watch my mother peel pomegranates.
Art in the space of social issues
