2+ hour, 47+ min ago  (211+ words) I gesture at these particulars not because they discredit Friedrich or his project'after all, I'm not taking the time to explain why you should believe my assessment instead of his'but because they are at the very least areas of lively…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (305+ words) I write this less than 24 hours after it happened. Compelled to, in the knowing of how quickly the moment can pass, and wanting it not to. It was Thursday. My wife was still recovering from a serious episode of vertigo…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (846+ words) Wendell Berry has spent a lifetime reminding Americans that memory is a form of stewardship. In Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story, he does what he has always done best'tell a small (and usually fictional) story that reveals something…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (268+ words) It is perhaps no self-deception if I say that in this state you develop an aversion to the open air, the (so to speak) Uranian atmosphere, and that the thought of an "outside" becomes almost a torture. You have no…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (155+ words) Justice is Geometric." Likam Kyanzaire talks with Ron Eglash about the fractal patterns apparent in some African settlement patterns: The larger promise of fractal design," he writes, is to build nested, connected structures in which value can circulate back to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (138+ words) Image Credit: Albrecht D'rer, "Adam and Eve" (1504) Elena Streett is a poet and playwright from Texas, currently studying Creative Writing at Oklahoma Baptist University. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Vita Poetica, The Oakland Arts Review, and New…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (201+ words) This is not a metaphor. I placed my key in the lock and tried to turn it to unlock the back door to my Midwestern home. Instead, the key got stuck. Only with effort did I manage to extricate it…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (124+ words) A Letter to Me." Brian Miller ponders a difficult question: How can younger generations aspire to preserve something they have never experienced?" According to this piece, the White House has received a "petition to "abolish the capitalist mode of production....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (139+ words) That was a long time ago." But we need not despair. Perhaps the transcendence of what has been called our technofeudal" age will be achieved not by the great leader, but by the little people, and the little creatures, who…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (101+ words) Image Credit: Anselm Kiefer, "The Orders of the Night" (1996) Aaron Weinacht thinks about history and builds furniture in Beaverhead County, MT. Review of Mac Intyre's book. According to David Rieff, FPR occupies an honorable space on the right side of…...