“This is no slur upon his character. For every rabbi so magnificently pious or learned or original in his theory or prodigious in his writing that he he is remembered […]
20 Chicago Things I’ve Learned In 20 Years As A Chicagoan
“This might sound like I believe there is some vast conspiracy at work, which I don’t, but the situation we find ourselves in is effectively the same as if there […]
Friday Links: Every Book Title Could Be This Week’s Title Edition
“Everyone spoke underwater; I could only / hold my breath to listen for so long. / I did learn the water carries its own song.” – Michelle Peñaloza, “POST DIASPORA” […]
11 Wonderfully Strange Books By Latine Authors
“You will be a tiny volcano prettier than three thirsty dogs curtsying and / swapping advice on how to grow wheat in mothballed pianos.” – César Moro, “VISION OF MOTH-EATEN […]
Friday Links: They Don’t Want You Around Edition
“George did not sing along but he listened intently to the words of the song. He found them to be the words of a people that must have been constantly […]
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Friday Links: Amorak Huey’s Mouth & Other Poems Edition
“I put in a plastic bag / 8 limes, even the plastic / was alive, it used to be / Precambrian vegetables” – Matthew Rohrer, “49” It’s poetry week, but […]
Ekphrasis: Stuff Happening August 2026 Edition
“Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike. Some people find this idea repulsive…they would prefer to see music […]
Friday Links: Weirder Functioning Public Transit Edition
“To see something like that, to discover that the world you thought you’d lived in was a lie, a thin shell of respectable rationality over a roiling core of madness?” […]
Ekphrasis: Punks Edition
“The desperate, innate desire to create and perform had been exploited rather than supported. It was like taking a basic human need, like wanting to love and be loved, and […]