Infinite Zest: Thoughts on Gogol
Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time For y’all have knocked her up. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe; I was not offended. For I knew I had to rise above it all Or drown in...
View ArticleMemory, Identity, and Portrait-Images
In the late 1920’s, René Magritte shared an epiphany with the world: for all of his photorealistic magic, all of his paintings were merely two-dimensional representations of life. Nothing he painted...
View ArticleTo Where Shadows Dance Inside Us
by Devney Hamilton “I was sitting on my mother’s bed trying to get a good look at myself . It was a large bed and it stood in the middle of a large, completely dark room. The room was completely dark...
View ArticleEditor’s Desk: A Life of Poetry
by Brian Tich Today I came across these lines by the poet Dorothea Lasky: I say I want to save the world but really I want to write poems all day I want to rise, write poems, go to sleep, Write poems...
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“Actually, I’m Jewish.”
by Seth Winger Studied in Berlin, Spring 2010 It’s a phrase I’m used to saying, for one reason or another. What are you doing for Christmas? Actually, I’m Jewish. (Subtext: going to a Chinese...
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The Thinking Citizen’s Tour of the Townships
by Mary Glen Frederick Studied in Cape Town, Winter 2011 Photos by Cole Murphy-Hockett One of the girls sits next to me on the tour bus. I can’t remember her name —per usual, I am conflating and...
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The Tutorial Cycle
by Dustin Janatpour Studied in Oxford, Fall 2011 Photos by Kate Erickson I. Tutorial Morning So you wake up. The sun is already peeking through the back windows of Stanford House—including the one in...
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Abroad Reflections
Stanford Overseas On Being a Jew in Germany, On Township Tourism, & On Surviving Oxford Tutorials or, See, we didn’t just party! Photo by Cole Murphy-Hockett '11 “Actually, I’m Jewish” Essay and...
View ArticleObservations by the Gates of Hell
by Grace Kearney Nobody feels implicated by the Gates of Hell. Despite the obvious connection between the twisted, naked bodies and an activity almost every visitor has enjoyed themselves, the...
View ArticleHidden in Plain Sight: Silence & Cookies
by Jen Ehrlich When you lose something important, something so vital that most people can’t imagine a world without it, you have three choices. Choice one: pretend that it didn’t matter in the first...
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