Looking Beyond Election Day: The Issues That Threaten to Derail the Nation
While it may be months before the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy can be fully resolved, Americans cannot afford to…
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Honey Boo Boo vs. The Bullies: “Redneckognizing” Accountability in Cultural Critique
Let’s be honest: reality television dominates American screens, and almost everyone says it’s the end of Western civilization. If you’ve…
Poems by Dan Hedges
In my view, vital poetry has to do with wordsmithing that packs reverent aesthetics into a complex semantic charge. I…
The Seersucker Returneth: Kolchak and Johnny Depp
“Code five, all cars respond,” crackles a voice over the radio. “Homicide suspect on building on intersection of Laramie and…
Who’s Afraid of The Exorcist?
It was so quiet, one of the killers would say later, you could hear the sound of ice rattling in…
A Poem by Tyler Kutner
Absurd. Surreal. These are words that could describe a line like "Opening myself to orange diamonds / I color the…
Fiction: A Chance Encounter
At 4:15 a.m., the New Orleans−bound passenger train made its scheduled stop at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where I disembarked, along with…
The Occult Magic of Purity Ring’s Shrines
I left the recent Purity Ring concert with two predominant thoughts. One, that magic might actually be real, but real…
Movies and Politics: Truth in Fiction
With Election Day right around the corner, the propaganda machines are busily spinning political webs with which the candidates can…
Letter from Russia, Volume I: Life on the Other Side of the Language Gap
A few years ago I tutored a Chinese student during his first summer in the U.S., before he started his…