Morning on the Island Morning on the Island
The lights across the water are the waking city. The water shimmers with imaginary fish. Not far from here lie the bones of conifers washed from the sea and piled by wind. Some mornings I walk upon them, bone to bone, as far as the lighthouse. A strange beetle has eaten most of the trees. It may have come here on the ships playing music in the harbor, or it was always here, a winged jewel, but in the past was kept still by the cold of a winter that no longer comes. There is an owl living in the firs behind us but he is white, meant to be mistaken for snow burdening a bough. They say he is the only owl remaining. I hear him at night listening for the last of the mice and asking who of no other owl.
Apr 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Carolyn Forché
A = A A = A
Mine to ask a mask to say, A is not A. No one, ever the contrarian, to answer. The moon is both divided & multiplied by water: as chance, as the plural of chant. O diver, to be sea-surrounded by a thought bled white-- a blankness as likely as blackness. What is the word for getting words & forgetting? Might night right sight? I, too late to relate I & I, trap light in sound & sing no thing that breath can bring.
Apr 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Joron
Reading on the Brain Reading on the Brain
In the history of reading, does progress hinge on the weird, obsolete or eccentric among us?
Apr 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Who is Duke? Tonight We Find Out Who is Duke? Tonight We Find Out
Dynasty or decaying empire? That’s the question Duke will be answering tonight as they square off against the Butler Bulldogs for the NCAA Men’s Championship.
Apr 5, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Government Funding Cannot Save Journalism Government Funding Cannot Save Journalism
David Carr calls the idea that good watchdog media can be funded by the government "frankly preposterous."
Apr 5, 2010 / The Nation Video
A Visit With Salam Fayyad A Visit With Salam Fayyad
Is the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority a "radical bean counter" or savior of the two-state solution?
Apr 5, 2010 / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF
Organized labor takes on Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in a pair of new ads.
Apr 5, 2010 / Ari Berman
States’ Rights in Our Participatory Democracy States’ Rights in Our Participatory Democracy
States' rights is a constitutional, not political, issue; it can cut, ideologically, both ways.
Apr 5, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Tiger Woods Story That Actually Matters A Tiger Woods Story That Actually Matters
Tiger Woods has long maintained he was the victim of a Kindergarten hate crime. Now his teacher is saying that story is a lie. Here's one issue Tiger should not ignore.
Apr 5, 2010 / Dave Zirin
On Disarmament: Will Obama Make His Rhetoric Real? On Disarmament: Will Obama Make His Rhetoric Real?
Petition the president to take the lead in the fight to abolish nuclear weapons.
Apr 5, 2010 / John Nichols