Survival Skills at a School in LA

Street killings of students are so familiar in South Central that kids practice their own grim rituals

Four Poems

Paint Fight

Two titans of art go head to head

The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel that Defined the RenaissanceBy Jonathan Jones / Leonardo and the Last Supper By Ross King

A Song for Molly

In which I tell how I fell hard for a dog, why I have problems with women, and what I know about Ludwig Wittgenstein

Responses to Our Autumn 2012 Issue

Derailed By “Who’s On First”

On committing to the wrong thing

Toilet Talk, Part 1

More than a matter of waste not, want not

Confucianism in China Today

An ancient philosophy makes a comeback

Dogfarts

There are no stupid people, only stupid comments

Poe and Baudelaire

Birds of a feather sold together …

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

New Year, Old Year

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