Baron Wormser: “Sweet, ironic” America and Cesare Pavese 
Among the many heartbreaking sentences in the diaries of the great Italian poet and writer Cesare Pavese, these few, at the very end when he was grappling with his love … Continue reading
Barbara E. Young: About the Language. And Inevitable Death
alone could fill all the space
between all the yellow cities on the map with a hollow
more empty than the echo of the emptiest of moved-from homes
Bhikshuni Ubbiri: A Voice Calling Back
84,000 daughters, all named Jiva, have died and been buried here in this boundless cemetery you call a world.
Video: Air
An ode to human connection, ‘Air’ evokes through image and music the emotional resonance between people when they almost, but not quite touch.
Video: Little Brother
Little Brother charts the transitional time of adolescence when childhood ends and independence comes into fruition.
Mattea Kramer: Isolation and Opioids During the Pandemic
Drug Use in the Covid-19 Moment
Jane Ganahl, et al: Elder Women Speak about the Virus
Women over 60 share their coronavirus stories—from becoming a grandmother to dancing in the street.
Nicholaos Jones: At times of suffering, the greatest gift is accompaniment by another
To accompany another is to give companionship against despair, dissonance and desolation.
Elizabeth Romero: Question on a Wednesday Night
And you, my love.
Why do I feel alone without you
Whom I have never known?
Emily Dickinson: The Loneliness One dare not sound
The Loneliness One dare not sound—And would as soon surmiseAs in its Grave go plumbingTo ascertain the size— The Loneliness whose worst alarmIs lest itself should see—And perish from before … Continue reading
Fay Bound Alberti: One is the loneliest number
The history of a Western problem ‘God, but life is loneliness,’ declared the writer Sylvia Plath in her private journals. Despite all the grins and smiles we exchange, she says, … Continue reading
Justin Vicari: Kingdom of One
Hey there, snappy-coated language and an unexpected, high-tech subject will not reinvent your reasons for speaking, oneself one’s only true subject, no matter what we think, here in this diner-booth … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Lonely American
Michael P. Printup, president of Watkins Glen International, one of the country’s largest racetracks, stood with a group of about a dozen race fans at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Next to … Continue reading
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