Anik See

Essays

The Crush and the Rush and the Roar

Anik See

And a sort of current ran through you when you saw it, a visceral, uncontrollable response. A physical resistance to the silence

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Rayya Liebich

Essays

Righthand Justified

Language built on sounds of delight, coloured in the gardens of Beirut

Sadie McCarney

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Christmas in Lothlórien

It was a gruesome war, Santa added in Papyrus font, but the forces of Good eventually emerged victorious

Derek Fairbridge

Reviews

Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball

For the uninitiated, the poetic mysteries of baseball can seem elusive if not downright silly. Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball (Chronicle), a print version of the Smithsonian Institution exhibition of the same name, doesn’t set

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Trouble at the Henhouse

"I now know that every omelette, every angel cake, every soufflé, and every bucket of Colonel Sanders’ fried chicken brings us closer to a better, more intelligent world, where cruelty and pettiness do not exist."

Nofel

Poetry

In Arabic

Arabic would’ve never been were it not for our eyes

RJ McDaniel

Comics

Petrine

I made a plan to get out

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