A Fabric of Surfaces Victoria Baena Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John reaches across the years to pose questions of art, love, and self-possession.
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Robert Moses is Dead Roshan Abraham Making urban planning more equitable requires more than atoning for past sins.
The Gospel of Organizing Daisy Pitkin Winning union victories at organizations founded and sustained by Gilded Age wealth.
Imperfect Voices Sophia Stewart “Diminished Faculties” theorizes impairment as the rule, not the exception.
The Gospel of Organizing Daisy Pitkin Winning union victories at organizations founded and sustained by Gilded Age wealth.
Imperfect Voices Sophia Stewart “Diminished Faculties” theorizes impairment as the rule, not the exception.
Morning Dan Lau There is a neighbor drying the dishes in a wire rack each plate filed under another prong. Open. Filled. Open. Vacancy. In the next apartment, a pile of shells. The spirals exercised under the pressures of sand returns the hollow to a net of light. Above, each tarred shingle provides an understanding. Starlings drag their bodies through the sky and back again. Scatter then fall, collect like blood on the back of a razor thin telephone wire. Jars and empty brown bottles flood the space below the kitchen table. Within this, concealed the idea of drowning. Kiss the sea. We’ve created a body of permanent ice. In another room, shards of apples fill a metal bowl. Water is water because we can drink it.
Fault (Catallus 102) Mike Lala Leaks drip out of lips that part, from a copse where secrets rot, churning to a knot that needs untying by a friend. Split a digraph: Scantly ape the palm one hides to shake, and cup the eyes, obstruct the mouth, and plug the ear the weaker party rambled.