I slip beneath the surface in January, so cold
the water steams from the pool into the air
like effervescent waves—
you could blow them with a breath and watch
as they take
On the morning that I started my first office job, a coworker walked me to the
kitchen and pointed to a sleek looking appliance on the countertop. This was a
response to my
Many of the standard traits of a dystopian vision are in Jennifer Phang’s
Advantageous. Set in a future, unnamed megacity, water is scarce, surveillance
and shadowy corporations are plentiful, and terrorists intermittently
For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he
sees.”—Isaiah 21:6
“Sentimentality about Lee’s story grew even as the harder truths of the
In his essay for Commentary, “How Art became Irrelevant
[https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/how-art-became-irrelevant/],”
Michael J. Lewis describes a shift in public perception of art. Previously, art
was an integral part of