A Death in Toyne In the summer of 1974 I watched an elderly man drag a wooden deck chair onto the beach just north of Toyne. He was from the area, I’d seen him before, so I didn’t bother to warn him that the place where he finally chose to stop and . . .
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RoutesIn Minima Moralia, Adorno reviles U.S. highways. They represent the irruption of capitalism in nature: “the more impressively smooth and broad they are, the more unrelated and violent their gleaming track appears against its wild, overgrown surroundings.” They are artificially devoid of marks—neither foot nor wheel can leave a trace on them, . . .
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Cover Art: Susan Jahoda, From the series (in preparation for absence), Untitled, silver print, 16×20 inches, 1999. ©Susan Jahoda, used with permission. All Rights Reserved. A PDF of Roe: Telling the Tale is available here. Available from Amazon, Kobo, and Weightless Books. (All profits from sales will be donated to the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts)
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BEFORE MY HUSBAND, Len Berkman, and I married in September 1962, we spent the summer of that year in my hometown, San Jose, California. While working as a reporter for the Milpitas Post on the outskirts of San Jose, Lenny met Patricia Theresa “Pat” Maginnis. Pat offered night classes in English to . . .
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WHOEVER VISITS BELGIUM as a tourist might happen upon Fort Breendonk, halfway between Brussels and Antwerp. The fortress was built during World War I. I don’t know what purpose it served then, but in the Second World War, during the short eighteen days of resistance by the Belgian Army in May of . . .
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