Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
All Categories - Journal of the Plague Years
January 21, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin Few outside observers believed that Joe Biden would commute the sentence of...
January 20, 2025 ·
Kathy Goss Now that we need to evacuate the palace, we find that all the cardboard boxes have...
January 18, 2025 ·
Marc Cooper Greetings from Santiago. I was visiting friends and family here as January 6 came...
January 18, 2025 ·
Mike Madrid January 7th was my first day out of the house in weeks. I had spent the holidays...
January 18, 2025 ·
John Kruth According to a Passamaquoddy Indian named George I met at a rest stop on the...
January 18, 2025 ·
Hector Tobar Less than a month before fires began to ravage my hometown, State Farm sent me a...
January 16, 2025 ·
Dave Newman I woke from a delicate sleep to a hooker knocking on my truck window. It was late...
January 8, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin Southern California has always burned. But the fires now are more frequent, more...
January 4, 2025 ·
Brian Cullman No one ever wrote better about the blues than Stanley Booth, who died December...
January 4, 2025 ·
Stanley Booth Stanley Booth 1942-2024
December 29, 2024 ·
Lori Jakiela Jimmy Carter boarded the plane with the other passengers. This was 1999, the end...
December 22, 2024 ·
J.P. Sottile aka The NewsVandal We are heading into new territory, folks. Elon Musk, who is, as...
December 22, 2024 ·
Susan Zakin The first time many of us heard about Curtis Yarvin was right before the vice...
December 10, 2024 ·
Susan Zakin It was just an ordinary Monday. The New York Times tried to explain why some young...
December 8, 2024 ·
Lisa Alvarez It’s PIQ season. I expect this means little to most unless you are a hopeful...
November 28, 2024 ·
Marc Cooper The ongoing capitulation to Donald Trump by the mainstream media continues, slowly...
November 28, 2024 ·
Patrick Fealey A.D. 2024—The United States Twenty-seven degrees in a Port-A-Jon, the seat...
November 17, 2024 ·
Andrew Tonkovich 1. They’re selling postcards of the hanging. Fortuitous, as those citizens who...
November 16, 2024 ·
Sarah H. de Kay From the safe distance of the Chamousseau woods in central France, the Biden...
November 16, 2024 ·
Susan Zakin The Power of the Powerless is the name of a slim volume written by Vaclav Havel in...
