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An Underground Railroad for Modern-Day Slaves

By Jo Piazza

August 29, 2014

A nun in New York City helps trafficked women find freedom.

Eat Prey Drug: Wetiko [NSFW]

By Paul Kwiatkowski

August 28, 2014

Continuing his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness, author Paul Kwiatkowski confronts a psycho-spiritual disease.

Hamlet and My Life in China

By Will Julian

August 27, 2014

Living abroad in China is like living in Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts

By Helena Bento

August 25, 2014

Once there was a magazine that published everything.

Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. IV

By Taylor Beck

August 25, 2014

A stranger reading Trimalchio on the subway seemingly opens up the doors to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New York.

The Fires This Time

By Rebecca Golden

August 22, 2014

Art and arson on Detroit's East Side.

Behind the Lit: Baudelaire the Conservative

By Benjamin Welton

August 21, 2014

Considering his revelry in poetry, sex and rebellion, you might assume that Charles Baudelaire was a man of the political left … but you’d be wrong.

I am Providence: Lovecraft’s New England

By Benjamin Welton

August 20, 2014

As cosmic as H. P. Lovecraft’s thoughts often were, New England and his home city of Providence, Rhode Island influenced his fiction just as much as his imagination.

Simple Reasons Why You Should Read Physical Books

By Freddie Moore

August 18, 2014

With all the talk of e-book prices and the future “Netflix of books,” let’s not lose sight of the importance of actual books.

Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. III

By Ryan DeShon

August 18, 2014

Reading House of Leaves at a bar while waiting for the laundry degenerates into drunken anxiety.

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