MY NAME IS PHILIP AND I AM AN EQUATION She does not much care to daydream of blue though when she sits naked in the window, she is silent always of ghost. She is only a child rising through this water like warm dirt and she now cuts my fingernails. My dear fingernails she cuts…
Read MoreMY NAME IS SAM AND I AM SO TIRED In her lungs, dirty water and often birds crowd until she vomits feathers. Her antidepressants, safe in a matchbox alongside the pebble removed from her lungs – the pebble removed from her last terrible blue. Her scalp a pine tree stripped of needles and brushed slow…
Read MoreMY NAME IS JOSEPH AND I AM A ROCKSTAR If only a shotgun, if only a twelve gauge loaded fast with birdseed and shot between my teeth. Before the sun eagerly fucks the clouds – I ask her to please crack my chest with a four iron and I ask her to please raise and…
Read Moreby David Greenspan I have been smoking my fingers very slow as this movie projector blinks. This old movie projector shows black and white teenagers with hands of nicotine and hands of box-cutter. I have been smoking the teenagers’ nicotine very slow and so what if I have been stray dog for quite some time.…
Read Moreby Russell Bennetts David Mikics is a professor at the University of Houston and writes on Renaissance literature, twentieth century poetry and fiction, continental philosophy, and literary theory. His published works are on ideas which range from pathos and subjectivity in Spenser and Milton to individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche. His current book, Who Was Jacques Derrida? provides a summary…
Read MoreIn a quiet office tucked away in Mayfair – over a long table so white I am hesitant to even place my fingers on it – Adair Turner is speaking to me about the nature of money.
Read MoreFrom The Atlantic: If you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. There, on the set of Meet the Press, the host, David Gregory, was interviewing a guest who made a forceful case that the U.S. economy had become “very distorted.” In…
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