Language Arts Archives

Uncommon Catastrophes Uncommon Catastrophes

Reconsidering how the Middle East was transformed by World War I.

Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Tom Finn

Return Return

January robin, I want you to live more than I want you to stay and I want you to stay more than I want to live. Stipple your frost-fitted feet on the crunchsqueak of the cornsnow lit up with its own freezing. Your chest like morning-mouth blood on the pillow for reasons I’d rather not know. Cold-cramped wing fly you to Iowa for half-safety for these climes will climb to your beak. And all we hear from is heat and melt. Let that rumor your feather, fling you far.

Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Richards

Bonfire of the Humanities Bonfire of the Humanities

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.

Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

Mistakes Get Made Mistakes Get Made

Democracy floats on currents of change. Is it ever capable of managing them?

Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears

Marriage Marriage

At the lowest stratum of Troy, beneath the Skaean Gates and broken dishes and bronze flakes as brittle as fallen leaves, Schliemann found a pair of toads in hibernation since the time of Hector and Andromache. To think of what survives!

Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Devin Johnston

Koi Koi

Koi converse in slow circles of what we have not seen Mercy and the dark bottom of the pond The recirculating pump we call karma is only a sound and mysterious as well being A comforting surrounding to lives of endless destinations

Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Allan Peterson