Arts & Culture

Hello Doughboys Where is your war today? Vietnam’s nitroglycerin jungles weren’t enough, Now that the jungles are stained red The sand has to be painted With new swords unspoiled That are built to destroy the plow To not be beaten And tear...

“Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies, and the storm repels” — Erasmus Darwin In the 1980s, North America was invaded. Mad Max tore up our screens. AC/DC tore up our...

We’re all back to school for the first full week, and I can guarantee that with all this academic tension in the air we will all settle at some point. Settle for the class...

I have been suffocated, strangled My words cut short and the flow Ceased My back is broken by black and bulging beasts, Whose sadness seeps from strike to skin, And their laughs lord over me, Low, laying lying and...

When we last left Sarah in French camp: part I, has finished her French immersion program in Quebec, and is moving out into the real world . . . “This is just like home renovations...

What had started out as a celebration of beauty, turned into a day of distress and contempt. A beauty contest gone wrong turns into an almost full-out lawsuit and epidemic. The tragic story told...

Most people believe Leonard Cohen authored the playbook for late-night conversation, drinking wine, making out and then feeling vaguely depressed about it all. But a closer reading of his poetry reveals a much more...