Saturday Poem: Zombies in Paradise
Today they’re recruiting for the Corps of the Undead;in fetid cubicles they anticipate more dead. The Wagner Group has left, so they hit the Taco Bells.Salmonella casualties lead to eight
Friday Poetry: Give-and-Take-Ghazal
by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade: I would like to give more than I take in this world of takers. I forgive others for being snippy or falling short, then
Thursday Poem: Untitled
From ‘You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me‘ Late one night in my officeone mile from home, I stared out my window in an insomniac haze.Remember how crazed I
‘Hamay Kho Kar’ (ہمیں کھو کر) Song By Runa Laila
نغمہ = ہمیں کھو کر بہت پچھتاؤ گے جب ہم نہیں ہونگیں. فلم = احساس 1974 Evergreen Composition of Robin Ghosh Sung By Runa Laila at Bazm-e-Laila Special Program on
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Wednesday Poem: My Brother Buries His Dog
by Chris Green: He moves furniture for a living, oversized bureaus and beds for the rich. He is big now and dumb with love that animals sense—cats, dogs, squirrels, birds,
Tuesday Poem: Hey, People!
Hey, you over therewho are sitting on the shore, happy and laughing,someone is dying in the water,someone is constantly strugglingon this angry, heavy, dark, familiar sea.When you are drunkwith the
The Best Spy Movie Ever Isn’t James Bond — It’s This
Army of Shadows Matthew Mosley in Collider: Has anyone exerted as much influence over the spy genre as Ian Fleming? Examples of espionage fiction may have predated his transition from naval
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State of the Art
From “Sources of Life,” which was published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Point. Jackson’s essay “Prayer for a Just War” appeared in the June issue of Harper’s Magazine.
Narcissism is a Defining Feature of Modern Activism
Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified Narcissism. It has become a defining feature of modern activism—“the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.” Julia Friedman in Quillette: On my
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‘Nasim Gul Sahib’ -By Habib Khan
Engr. Habib Khan writes from Quetta: In the mid nineties, when the drug dealers started to make Hub their hub, I decided to hire a chowkidar and was introduced to
Sunday Poem By: Tsoai‐talee. ‘I am, Therefore, Therefore I am.’
The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee I am a feather on the bright skyI am the blue horse that runs in the plainI am the fish that rolls, shining, in the
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Saturday Poem: Until the Roof Falls In
The crack is moving down the wall,Defective plaster isn’t all the cause.We Must remain until the roof falls in. It’s mildly cheering to recallThat every building has its little flaws.The