Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
All Categories - Journal of the Plague Years
22. März 2025 ·
Anna Gotlib In her villanelle, “One Art,” the poet Elizabeth Bishop conveyed feelings that I've...
22. März 2025 ·
Susan Zakin There are so many stories about Donald Trump and Russia flailing around the...
11. März 2025 ·
2028 is Coming
9. März 2025 ·
Jim Carrier As I watch America’s elite institutions abandon diversity, equity and inclusion...
9. März 2025 ·
Joan Juliet Buck Fierce winds all night. N rescued the garbage cans from the middle of the...
2. März 2025 ·
When Trump 2.0 hit, we thought "surely this is too terrible to joke about." No more meme...
1. März 2025 ·
Mikal Gilmore Jan. 21 Nullification. That’s where my thoughts finally landed, lying there...
28. Februar 2025 ·
Trigger warning: Watching the Jerry Springer-like cascade of Trumpian lies while Ukrainian...
23. Februar 2025 ·
15. Februar 2025 ·
Lucian Truscott IV Celebrated as a novelist and screenwriter, and most recently as a Salon.com...
15. Februar 2025 ·
Marc Cooper What a difference a 14-hour plane ride makes! There I was basking in the 90-degree...
15. Februar 2025 ·
Roger Benham He awoke to the sea of his youth renamed, a caprice of the new king. The name...
15. Februar 2025 ·
Après John, le deluge
8. Februar 2025 ·
Susan Zakin It’s beautiful in southern California right now. Spring, perhaps false spring, rife...
8. Februar 2025 ·
Amy Rigby How do you know you've really moved? Get a mammogram - I’m all signed up for the...
8. Februar 2025 ·
Lisa Alvarez The young woman went alone. The journey required a bus, then an hour-long train...
8. Februar 2025 ·
Susan Zakin The media missed the story on Pete Hegseth. Even Rachel Maddow, patron saint of the...
21. Januar 2025 ·
Susan Zakin Few outside observers believed that Joe Biden would commute the sentence of...
20. Januar 2025 ·
Kathy Goss Now that we need to evacuate the palace, we find that all the cardboard boxes have...
18. Januar 2025 ·
Marc Cooper Greetings from Santiago. I was visiting friends and family here as January 6 came...
