July 2019

Family, Romare Beardon, 1986

The Bard’s Players Still Strut . . .
Upon the Stage of Washington
ERIC ROZENMAN

We Will Not Go to Mars
ADAM SELENE

Slavery is Wrong, How can Abortion be Right?
DANIEL MALLOCK

Gratitude and Grumbling
THEODORE DALRYMPLE

My America: A Portrait in Exile
PEDRO BLAS GONZÁLEZ

From the Magical Land of Ellegoc to the
First Man on the Moon
JEFF PLUDE

The Coup that Couldn’t
G. MURPHY DONOVAN

A Detransitioner’s Story
MARITZA CUMMINGS

Noble Savages
FERGUS O’CONNOR

The Welfare State
STEPHEN SCHECTER

Are We Really in the Back Row?
JOEL HIRST

The NPC Meme
ARMANDO SIMÓN

Bible Champs of the Ring
KENNETH FRANCIS

Jarrell’s Little Lady and the Race Police
SAMUEL HUX

Max Bruch, Die Loreley, and the German Romantic Tradition
BOYD CATHEY

Sloppy Words
CARL NELSON

The Theory of Astrology
JUSTIN WONG

Wilted Laurels
(or, A Sad Ballade to Our Poets Inglorious)

DAVID SOLWAY

Hollywood
GUIDO MINA di SOSPIRO
 

STORIES & POETRY

Bovina: Avant-Garde Fireworks
KIRBY OLSON

La Mer
SCOT WALKER

Remembering Harry
JAMES COMO

Beatrice, To My Son, Labyrinths, AND When Once I Strode
ANDREW THORNTON-NORRIS

Wife Poem #37 AND Self-Help Poem #45
CARL NELSON

Ash and Asphodels
MICHAEL SHINDLER

A School Exercise
JEFFREY BURGHAUSER

Two Aspects of Jorge Luis Borges
EVELYN HOOVEN

Elder’s Wisdom
BILL CORDEN