Haven’t you heard of concealer for those dark circles, and by God, what a miracle that men will even speak to you. “I bet they like your bit of crazy, ...
An interview with Lior Elefant, head of the Israeli Women in Film and Television Forum, and Program Director of the Israeli film festival, Lethal Lesbian.
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Yet now I am here, in this room with metal tables. To make the messiness of bodies easier to clean up Continue Reading To Die Under a Great ...
All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression. Continue Reading Book Review: We Were Strangers, ...
I remember telling him three times…Does it still matter? Does it still count? Continue Reading Why I Didn’t Report
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On the one hand, we were happy to walk freely on a narrow path that not too long beforehand would have been heaving with crowds. On the other, we were ...
When he and I weren’t tangled in his sheets upstairs, his tall, lanky body wrapped around mine, he was reading treatises on physics to me, and poetry, by candlelight in ...
Is that what love is, a thought that your mind made up with its chemicals and its hokum and its voodoo magic? Continue Reading Cerulean
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Just a little over halfway through Erik Martiny’s debut novel, the protagonist-narrator, Olaf Montcocq, deep in the throes of adolescent literary self-emergence, explains how he welcomed the prospect of being ...
I always come back. Continue Reading Needle-Junkie Debt
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The first time we saw Gion was in the evening, during a light rain. And what a seductive show it put on. The pink sun diminished between buildings seemingly held ...
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
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Focusing particularly on the words of Paul McCartney and John Lennnon, Frank Meola’s essay “Reading Words, Hearing Music” is about song lyrics and poetry and the difference between the two. ...
Read part one of this series here. Due to the back-and-forth nature of our trip, we gave ourselves only two days in Tokyo before we were scheduled to leave it. ...
“New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So wrote a scholar of the city at the turn of ...
The terminal was just a few blocks from our apartment. Often we were the first people on the bus and had it all to ourselves. These were days in the ...
The youngest of twelve children, Jo Ann Robinson was born in Culloden, Georgia. She was the first college graduate in her family, and later earned a master’s degree. In 1949, ...
As a young child, I recall tracking the aeroplane on the inflight map as it move towards Seoul Incheon International Airport, yet was always puzzled by what that country above ...
In the first of his column for Litro, debut author Polis Loui Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 01. Occidentals
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“Innocence ended: the fight for gun control in a land where guns are valued more than children’s lives”. Continue Reading The Code Red Drill Generation
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