The House With The Red Door (for Jessica who asked)
We must disregard old favourites, learn to forget the past. It is usually found where there is not too much direct sunlight, a sudden picture that was hidden but is still included. No-one was able to...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of the Village
It has almost stopped raining, but cloud’s still lower than our house. Abandoned shoes and burn marks show points of departure on the street, blackberries and sloes fill the hedges, waders call at...
View ArticleAre You a Revolutionary?
In the 1960′s Martin Luther King Jr. called for a revolution of values in the United States that would address racism, materialism, and militarism. His words were clearly understood as a call for...
View ArticleShould Christians Give Markets Another Chance?
“Guns don’t kill people; people do,” goes the slogan of Second Amendment defenders. On the surface, this is at least partly true—firearms generally do require human hands and wills to fulfill their...
View ArticleConfessing the Revolution: Capitalism and the God in Whom We Trust
[F]rom its inception, capitalism has been a force of cataclysmic transformation in one country after another. Capitalism has radically changed every material, social, political, and cultural facet of...
View ArticleFinding a Diamond: A Bloody Mess
For several years now, a revolution has been gaining momentum in popular culture in the United States: ‘conflict free’ diamonds. I’ve been on the hunt for the ‘right’ diamond for the past few months...
View ArticleDeconstructing Moral Distinctions: A Review of George Saunders’s In...
All around and above us were those towering walls of light, curving across building fronts, embedded in the sidewalks, custom-fitted to light poles: a cartoon lion eating a man in a suit; a rain of...
View ArticleThe Center Somehow, Impossibly, Holds: Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions
Review: Only Revolutions. By Mark Z. Danielewski. New York: Pantheon, 2006. 360 pp. In his House of Leaves (published in 2000), Mark Danielewski toys with the apparatus of truth-telling, weaving...
View ArticleMuestra de Arte Popular y Urbano en Puerto Rico
Click here to view an interactive gallery of Eliacin Rosario-Cruz’s photography.
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