|Azra Thakur| Sometimes, I seem to feel a gravity rise from the depths of the ages throughout the world. In myself and in others, I notice a tendency to flee from new problems, to take refuge in churches or counter-churches, to rely on what has been achieved, to be complacent, to… Continue reading
|Chris Polley| “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you,” Joseph Heller famously wrote in his 1961 wartime satire Catch-22. Taking place during World War II and reveling in the titular paradoxes inherent in the very concepts of warfare and military service… Continue reading
|Jillian Nelson| During the summer of ‘92, right before her senior year of high school, my mother moved out of her parents’ home and into her great aunt’s basement which she rented for fifty dollars a month. Her senior year she paid for everything on her own: school supplies, sports equipment… Continue reading
