Welcome to Our 25th Year of Publication
August 2024
Bali There’s always something new to discover in this Indonesian paradise. The Photography of Jon Rendell
Seksan Sing-on เสกสรรค์ สิงห์อ่อน The seedlings of art that grow, flourish, and have quality, and can live beautifully and securely in society from generation to generation. Janine Yasovant
“It’s Important to Get the Truth Out” The Sixth, Civil War The best concise documentary so far about what happened on that date, when Congress was scheduled to confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election. Miles David Moore
An Enchanted Evening Enjoys Its 75th Anniversary Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s South Pacific Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
I Miss You, David Graeber He proposed anarchism as a way to unknot the toxic bind of right -wing populism and give its indignation a vocabulary and a means worthy of its impulse and desires. Michael Bettencourt
War and Death and Taxes What did we see through the stained, distant window when America's longest and most arrogantly insane war in Afghanistan faded into the gleeful archives of history?. Arthur Danin Adler
Let's get something straight I've just spent three days in a row not going outside except to check my little library and see if somebody's been fucking around in there again so far not so bad. Claudine Jones
The Old Men Monologues - Part III Hello, I see you're new here. Waiting for your kid, huh? Me, too. I’m waiting for my daughter. You see, I’ve been waiting for the last 35 years. Yep…every school day…for the last thirty...five... years. Les Marcott
Notes Toward a Memoir of Madness and Writing - Part III After the wasted few days, I was discharged to follow up care at a facility attached to the hospital that ran the rehab program, and I was able to be assigned to mental health care rather than substance abuse. Gregory Luce
My Cinematic Refuge: Midnight in Paris Sometimes, when the world overwhelms me with its violence and vulgarity, its obscenity, even its banality, there are also films to which I return much the same way one needs the refuge of a song. Patrick Walsh
John Lewis and the Unending Struggle for Justice in America What is particularly compelling is that the John Lewis portrait is art of notable distinction. Karren Alenier
Adlestrop
Edward Thomas
By the time Thomas wrote Adlestrop in January of 1915, the battles of the Marne and Aisne had already been fought and trench warfare was well underway.
David Alpaugh
Only Two Lines Could be Saved from the Mahabharata Half in my body, half out of it, I reenacted these events. Why had my teacher tried to dismember my just barely formed Homunculus? Brian George
Re-Visiting August 2019 Materials in a Spiritual World A Contextual Look at Kandinsky’s The Yellow Sound. So many of the early pieces in this series–since 2019–deserve re-visiting by its longtime readers, as well by readers who joined us more recently. Clay Gold and Lissa Tyler Renaud
writings
Chicken Bone (Part One) My Story with Ernest Hemingway Altenir Silva That day was unforgettable. I saved a mob boss, and bam, my whole life went upside down. It happened last year when I was dating a girl named Allison.
Snake Eyes Arthur Danin Adler Mr. Joe Caswell is a not too old, not too young man, easy to smile, easy to laugh, quick to anger. Mr. Joe Caswell is a consumer and dismisser of most things, especially people.
Life Upon the Wicked Stage Arthur Danin Adler On the Joy of Hearing a Stream of Words and Music from Gifted Non-internet Writers and Phrased by a Magical Non-internet Voice .
images
Painting: Hieroglyph VIII Poetry: A Pirate's Pilgrimage The Art of David Wiley
To Welcome This Summer I am writing this welcome on the threshold of the Summer Solstice arriving in our Northern Hemisphere. The Art of Philip Gerstein
The Art of SS. Burrus A Retrospective
When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people will appear on the Earth
Patrick Nagel It’s in the Eyes
media
Audio
Theatre Thoughts An entertaining array of audio essays on an array of theatre topics by an astute and entertaining essayist
You Don’t Say! Occasional Musings by an occasionally amused writer
Video
Undress Me In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her, by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue
Light Fantastic Weighty matters of brain neurons and addiction, two kisses, single-malt scotch, the green dance of blue, yellow lasers
Ear Buds What happens when we love our devices — and they love us back
The Greed Gene A young couple is told by their genetic counselor that their child has the greed gene, there is nothing they can do
letters
Letters to the Editor
books
Special—Issues
July/August 2015|●
Everything Old Is New Again January 2013|●
What Is Obscenity and What’s Not? January 2012|●
A Brief But Quirky History of the Arts January 2011|●
The Rising Fall of the Arts January 2010|●
The One January 2009|●
What Is Art? January 2008|●
View of the Arts January 2007|●
The Art of Sex in the Arts February 2006|●
State of the Art of the Arts October 2005|●
Special—Indexes
The Steiny Road Index of Karren Alenier’s columns and writings|●
Writings Index of Arthur Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
Good Reading Is Currently On Sale Here
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