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The end of certainty

by Stephen Chan

[ july 09 ]

The adventures that contributed to the writing of a book

The Holy Land

by Joe Palmer

[ april 09 ]

"Michal's folks were assured that she would be absolutely safe under the care of Dean Fallows and her corps of neutered monitors, chaperones and overseers."

The right to sleep in the Tompkins Square public library in 1935

by Harry Reynolds

[ march 09 ]

"In the winter of 1935, my uncle Lester entered the library to struggle through a hangover and he couldn't manage another block."

Sunday in the Park

by Harry Reynolds

[ february 09 ]

"When I was ten, I was a translator for my lip-reading, deaf mother..."

Tomorrow

by Joe Palmer

[ february 09 ]

Stoicism is practically taught to itinerant farmer families and they go on living tomorrow.

A Pinter Pause

by David Finkle

[ january 09 ]

A tribute to leisurely drama.

Al Birweh

by Alfred Corn

[ january 09 ]

An appreciation of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

"Darkness over all"

by Mike Jay

[ october 08 ]

John Robison and the birth of the Illuminati conspiracy.

Otto Weininger

by Gary Lachman

[ march 08 ]

"The suicide is almost always a sadist, because he alone wants to get out of a situation and can act," according to an almost forgotten Austrian writer (and racist, antisemite and misogynist).

Skoda Lasky

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ march 08 ]

From wasted love to beer barrels.