...Barbara Foley © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Foley 123 Barbara Foley Racism Redux: David Horowitz Then and Now There is a tendency among progressives and leftists to wish that we could be done with David...

...Lonnie Busch © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Busch 41 Lonnie Busch One Year from Now The room is small and bright like the inside of a hundred-watt light bulb and smells serious and antiseptic like a doctor’s office because...

... is that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone—now an ecological reserve—is paradigmatic or symptomatic, a theater for the complicated libidinal architecture of the kinds of postapocalyptic sites that may in coming years become the primary places for charismatic megafauna to live, and in which conservation becomes the management...

...Margret Grebowicz; Margret Grebowicz What Sir John Hunt described beautifully as “the problem of Everest” is a different problem now than it was for the 1953 expedition. These days Everest is anything but the great unknown, so commercialized that it has become symbolic of a world used up by humans...

... of migritude,” as Lila Azam Zanganeh notably called her. Moving from the rich exegeses of the liminal, haunted, frequently abjected, migritude conditions of her fictional—and often autobiographical—heroines, Diome has now arrived inside the Hexagon, where her words harmonize with a sizable chorus of interior...

... in which culture now exists are very different from those in the period that gave rise to cultural studies, necessitating new approaches to culture and politics. Taken together, these two books offer us important insights into how we examine culture in the context of globalization. (on Abbas Ackbar...

... literature and visual arts should be “connected with real life” and the world, “not clustered in the library where they have no communication with the experience of ordinary people.” He points out that different from the previously insular, Eurocentric world, the international art world now has produced...

...James J. Pulizzi The word Anthropocene purposely draws our attention to the anthropos , the humans who are now changing the planet’s climate. We must not forget, however, what media theorists and philosophers like Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, and Bernard Stiegler have pointed out—humans...

... militant films determined to skewer both the forces of political reactionism and the reformist wing of the labor movement. The first category is best personified by the now classic Kes (1969), while The Big Flame (1969) typifies the more didactic strand in Loach's work. Ironically enough, the Thatcher...

.... Because you come to understand, having your life completely around you and in you, that who you are now is simply who you have always been, that the then was never your name, that recognition was just standing in another room across water, that water put into water becomes water, that your name...

... the quadriceps and feeling them taut and feeling your torsion now that is love. Squirling down in your seat screwdrivering down into one point underneath you on this wooden bench now that is love lifting yourself up by your arms now that is love. Lifting the bucket and lending the bucket...

... it well enough to get the paint from the warehouse without having to peel any off. When he showed up with three buckets and made his first long stroke he realized he’d fucked up, and has meant, for a year now, to finish the job. It’s the last story he wants to discuss with Tommy, though he’s sure...

... shop.” “No shit, Sherlock.” “Well you gotta have some shit to pawn or I can’t make you a loan.” “Who makes the rules?” she asks, leaning over the counter now, her eyes dark as mine. “My boss,” I says. But for sure this girl ain’t Italian. She’s pale as a ghost. “Don’t you ever...

...G. C. Waldrep © 2016 G. C. Waldrep 2016 G. C. Waldrep This Grail of Meats, Asyndenton Now I am presenting my documents to the history of meat, of grapes, of honey. Now they are returned to me as the pallor of ashes, swept from a dry kiln. The wine, the sweet cake...

... before, and he is now composing a set of stories that feels closer to home. But home is a slippery concept, one he has been wrestling with in recent months. He doesn’t know if he’ll ever grasp it. What’s cer- tain is that he can’t claim it in Oregon, though the landscape awes him: the fields...

... the mold float in the air like spores,” said Ansel, “all the while knowing my mother is watching me. Let her watch, I say. I love my mother but I love to torment her, just as she has long tormented me. When I was much younger than I am now, she took me to a Mex- ican restaurant with her boyfriend...

... on the fringes, reflecting the blue sky and an occasional spark from the sun. As a child, she loved red. Now, Sarla wasn’t sure. Red was lively, uplifting. It reminded her that her marriage was still intact, that Igra was still alive. It also suggested that life was feeble, only a tiger paw away...

... and graduate students but not necessarily. Rees  Yeah, with the Levellers book. Now, this wasn’t the case, wasn’t anywhere nearly so back in the 1970s and early 1980s, but now the Rees Interview 125 standard way of publishing a piece of research...

...Michael Rogner © 2020 Michael Rogner 2020 Michael Rogner Winter in Calexico Now I understand why they wrote the Mexicali blues. Now I understand weaponized lovers. Now I understand that river won t fill this bucket. The Inuit have fifty words for snow which might be enough to crack the shell...

...Jackson Holbert © 2016 Jackson Holbert 2016 Jackson Holbert The Good Reverend Eulogizes His Friend Steve Look, life is very long. I know, right now, it doesn’t seem that way. Right now it seems too short. But tomorrow, like you’re already doing right now, you’ll forget Steve a little...