There is no status quo in politics. Things really do fall apart, to quote the overly quoted Yeats. For those of us bo…
Issue 008: October 2017
FOB by Daniel Ford
An excerpt of the debut novel Sid Sanford Lives! by Daniel Ford Sid stepped into the desert surrounding the cramped f…
New Poetry: “What Great Grief Has Made the Civilian Mute” by Jennifer Murphy
To watch soldiers load into planes on television To ignore veterans who manage to make it home To cry out when an air…
Exit West and Dark at the Crossing: Two Novels of Syrian Refugees
It has been a long six and a half years since the Arab Spring, the popular movement of early 2011 that toppled dictat…
Stalin’s Biography: For Serious Readers Only
Diving into an 850-page biography of one of the most monstrous and powerful men who ever lived is not something one d…