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Independence! Gimme some skin!
Sinatra and Steve McQueen agree to toast Independence. Moonshine becomes you! Keep it going, fellows!
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Name this writer, who was born today, July 3
If you make you identification in the form of a double dactyl, or a limerick, or a trial-and-error triolet, or an homage to Ovid's Metamorphoses, please have a go, and we'll announce the winners…
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“The Dybbuk” [by Boris Dralyuk]
from THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS May 29, 2025 issue for Delmore Schwartz From the parched courtyards of our past they grope toward us in the night,the desperate shades of schnooks, outcast before their debts…
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In Honor of “The Reb,” Rabbi Maurice Wohlgelernter
Ed note: When I was sixteen, I attended lectures on philosophy (e.g. Martin Buber's brand of existentialism) given by Rabbi Maurice Wohlgelernter at a nearby synagogue on Nagle Avenue in the Inwood secrtion of …
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“The Hard and the Soft”: Catullus 60 [trans. by Susan Brind Morrow]
Catullus 60 has a sort of fairy tale beginning. Like Aslan in The Silver Chair, there is a lion on a mountaintop up in the clearest air,and there is a monster that lives in…
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Daniel Borzutzky: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________________ Or (For Isaac) And he took his father to the flame and his father said I am not…
