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New Beers Resolutions

New Beers Resolutions

Are you in a beer slump, do you steerClear of tastes unlike those you hold dear?Well, I have a solution:New Beers Resolutions!I tried it; there’s nothing to fear. 1.If you like a clean lager (no frills),Here’s a beer that might just fit your bill:For Rebellion Red LagerHas a touch of swaggerWith sweetness . . .

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10 Questions for Alan Grostephan

10 Questions for Alan Grostephan

Tell us about one of the first pieces you translated.My first translation project was poems and short stories by young Colombian writers for Historias de vida y muerte/ Stories of Life and Death. That writing came from workshops I taught in Cazucá, a slum south of Bogotá where many of the writers . . .

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Al-Aqsa Flood: Turning the World Right Side Up

Al-Aqsa Flood: Turning the World Right Side Up

Raffi Marhaba, “El Kofeyye Arabeyye,” courtesy of Artists Against Apartheid On October 7, 2023, a group of Palestinian freedom fighters from the military wing of Hamas, the de facto government of Gaza, changed the world forever. In Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a prison break and hostage-taking mission turned into a spectacle of carnage—after . . .

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More Beers for a Sober October

I think I can finally stand meWithout a glass or a stein.– Barton Sutter, “Sober Song” Well, you know that a Sober OctoberFor this beer reviewer’s a Noper.Yet again—just for you—I’ve imbibed more such brews.Let me be your NA beer decoder. You can still do your work with these beers,Fill your glasses . . .

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You Know You Can’t Help It, Who You Are

You Know You Can’t Help It, Who You Are

Jim, I expect you would be surprised that your death affected me so much, that I spoke at two services for you, that I am writing about you now. We were friends, but we had not stayed in touch. So, it surprises me too. But you were a friend to me during . . .

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10 Questions for Katherine Vondy

10 Questions for Katherine Vondy

At first just one or two people watched the bears. Then they shared the bears with some of their friends and the friends started watching the bears. The friends told other friends who told other friends, and friendly acquaintances, and even strangers. These people told other people. After a while, everybody was watching the bears. . . .

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10 Questions for noam keim

10 Questions for noam keim

Late spring and early summer belongs to the delicate smell of lindens in bloom, covering the stench of violence and death in the city of Philadelphia. Every year, as the temperatures rise, so does the litany of guns at night, the refrain of a city intent on breaking your heart. Never enough branches and trunks . . .

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“Some Sing”: A Juneteenth Celebration at the Lincoln Center

“Some Sing”: A Juneteenth Celebration at the Lincoln Center

Key Art by Trevor Davis Presented here is Carl Hancock Rux’s Artist Statement for his forthcoming Juneteenth celebration at Lincoln Center “It was while singing… the idea of escaping from slavery was first suggested to my mind.” —Frederick Douglass African American music is inseparable from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the forced . . .

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What Does Claudia Sheinbaum Stand For?

What Does Claudia Sheinbaum Stand For?

Margaret Cerullo (photo: Hampshire College) The excitement in Mexico and abroad about North America’s first woman president has dominated the headlines—almost to the exclusion of who Claudia Sheinbaum is, and what she stands for. How did she win, and how will she confront the enormous challenges facing Mexico, perhaps none more dramatic . . .

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to cast a shadow for each other until we are bones

to cast a shadow for each other until we are bones

A review of The Girl Before Her by Line Papin (Kaya Press, 2023) The road to the laundromat is iced all over and the wind is ruthless, blowing me back to the winter in Massachusetts, to the field of sunflowers, their eight-foot stalks almost depleted of moisture, their beehive heads bent over by snow, . . .

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