From the Brooklyn-Queens Border, 22 April-17 May 2020.
Richard Kostelanetz: 'Nothing upsets me more, as a Democrat-for-life, than my party’s leaders advocating a state-enforced lock-out of employees because that has always been a corporate strategy to...
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James Gallant: 'The first identifiable object spelunkers in his team brought from the cave—a hominid mandible with teeth intact—would no doubt have brought a “huh!” or a “wow!” from just about anyone,...
View ArticleConsidering ‘The Young American Writers’ anthology, fifty-five years later.
Richard Kostelanetz: 'Both Carroll and myself resisted attributing to our writers a common esthetic stance and, in this respect, we differed from, say, Ezra Pound’s Des Imagists (1914). Or even a...
View ArticleIn Famagusta.
Jonathan Gorvett: 'The ultimate Cyprob ‘beginning’ can even be Mesozoic. While ‘Turkish’ north of Cyprus is dominated by jagged, igneous uplift – really part of the ‘Turkish’ Anatolian mainland, forty...
View ArticleMartyrdom.
Anthony Howell: 'With manipulation, the fault-lines can be re-opened, just as they were re-opened in Yugoslavia, where NATO capitalised on Croatia’s Ustasha (pro-Nazi) back-story and sponsored Muslim...
View ArticleWe need to talk about Vladimir.
Jonathan Gorvett: The current conflict is also even sometimes described as a ‘proxy war’ between Russia and the US — even though the former country is directly involved and indeed, is actually the...
View ArticleJ’accuse…injustement.
Anthony Howell: 'It is a stressful read, an account of one man’s very real suffering, given the uncertainty as to the outcome, the steep expenses incurred in hiring a legal team for defence (over a...
View ArticleShouts of terror on 43rd Street.
Nick Cohen: 'All good political writing will offend someone.'
View ArticleArtificial intelligence? Just asking.
Chat GPT: '...as an AI language model, I cannot create a polemic arguing that government funding of literature creates inferior literature.' The post Artificial intelligence? Just asking. first...
View ArticleThoughts on constitutional monarchs.
Anthony Howell: 'From what I hear (I haven't watched yet) the blessing of all religions and denominations has been expressly emphasised, which is a good idea. I like the idea of the monarch improving...
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