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“Why ‘Nixonland’ Matters” [by Joe Lehman]
When I was twenty-five, backpacking through Australia, I carried with me my hardcover copy of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. It absorbed me for all seven…
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A Lie [by Lera Auerbach]
Finek My dogwhimperedquietlyin his sleep.His legswere twitching –he had a nightmare. I woke him upgentlywith a lie:“It’s all right,I will neverleave youalone.”
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“Five One-Minute Eggs” [by Andrei Codrescu]
THE ECONOMY We used to make things we didn’t understand (Marx), consumed by people who didn’t understand us, and now we don’t even understand the people who are making them, that is us. Our…
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Poets, Law and Order, and Criminal Intent
An interoffice exchange from July 2009 WTF!!?! L&OCI Hey, what does Law and Order Criminal Intent have against poets? In last night's episode, "Passion," an arrogant poet/editor pimps out his young attractive assistants to…
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Love Most of You Too by Dustin Brookshire [by Nin Andrews]
I have a particular weakness for what I call gossip poems–poems that make me feel as if I’m eavesdropping on a juicy conversation. They remind me of my father, a talented gossip, though he…
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Paris: Waiting on (May &) June Events [by our Paris correspondent]
“People United”, Joanne Leighton. Photo: Patrick Berger 2021 Children, behave!/That’s what they say when we’re together!/ And watch how you play!/They don’t understand/ And so we’re runnin’ just as fast as we can/ holdin’…
