By Susan Swartz I took a day off from the news and made soup. No NPR. No New York Times. No local paper. No TV. A lot of curry. I took shelter from Syria and Parkland in my sunny kitchen. Had it not been for two teaspoons of neon orange turmeric I might have […]
By Sneha Subramanian Kanta The space aboriginals find home is soon lost thereafter; it never belonged to them. Their woe, the dream of governments, the nightmare of politicians. Press conferences quibble in placards of justice handed – smudged in red ink over a white cardboard surface, as though a widowed woman in India dare wear […]
By Dick Eiden “German liners struggled heroically to emulate Wagnerian castles, English liners fell into the dark wood and leather habits of a London club.” – Melvin Maddocks, The Great Liners, (Alexandria, VA, 1978) The bow went down first, while the stern stood tall, slowly disappearing two and a half hours after the […]
By Kate Delany “They burned their own houses and ran away,” Myanmar police forces said of the Rohingya minorities fleeing burning villages, leaving behind all possessions and their dead. They burn their own villages. They won’t learn proper English. They choose the Mommy track. They choose to live like that. They lie. They steal. They […]
