Adam Elkhadem 4/18/21 Adam Elkhadem 4/18/21

Octave 37

Octave has finally arrived on the island of Debonairia, but he’s not out of the woods yet. In fact, he’s barely entered them!

Will Schreitz 4/18/21 Will Schreitz 4/18/21

Casper and Fauntleroy 15

The path that adventurer’s take is full of twists, turns, and (as Casper learns this week) rocks!

Ruby Lanford 4/18/21 Ruby Lanford 4/18/21

Brain Drops 3

The stories we tell each other make up the foundation of who we are. Whether those stories are true or not might matter less than we think!

Hans Bellmer 4/16/21 Hans Bellmer 4/16/21

The Anatomy of the Image

The experience is absolute; a demonstration is made of the presence of an incomplete reality to which its image is opposed by the intervention of a motor element condensing the real and the virtual into a superior unity.

Tamas Vilaghy 4/13/21 Tamas Vilaghy 4/13/21

Aprils

Every year in April I am reminded of two monumental poetic works which begin with the Earth’s springtime renewal: The Canterbury Tales from 1400 and The Waste Land from 1922.

Greg Gerke 4/12/21 Greg Gerke 4/12/21

Returning to The Dreamlife of Angels

Art, that great teacher, says to us, like Robert Frost’s most famous lines, “Here are your waters and your watering place. / Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”

Adam Elkhadem 4/12/21 Adam Elkhadem 4/12/21

Octave 36

What does Maurice think of America’s most esteemed collection of fine art? The world may never know!

Will Schreitz 4/11/21 Will Schreitz 4/11/21

Casper and Fauntleroy 14

Casper’s quest has brought him into contact with many strange characters, but this might be the strangest of them all!

Ruby Lanford 4/11/21 Ruby Lanford 4/11/21

Brain Drops 2

A dog, a car, and a surveillance camera: what could go wrong?

Adam Elkhadem 4/4/21 Adam Elkhadem 4/4/21

Octave 35

For Octave, escaping from the clutches of kidnapping pirates is an easy feat. Determining what matters to him on a philosophical level? That’s a different story!

Ruby Lanford 4/4/21 Ruby Lanford 4/4/21

Brain Drops 1

Welcome to Ruby’s world, where dreams come true…for better or for worse!

Suzy V. 4/4/21 Suzy V. 4/4/21

Garfield minus garfield plus a german shepherd who’s horny for jon 10

Has happiness finally found German, or is it too good to be true?

Will Schreitz 4/4/21 Will Schreitz 4/4/21

Casper and Fauntleroy 13

Sunday is Fauntleroy’s day to relax and take it easy, but this week fate has something quite different in store for him!

Peter Cole 4/1/21 Peter Cole 4/1/21

Bloom’s Last Word

“We hear the intuitive Bloom, the open and receptive reader, the brooder and fabulous conversation partner, talking and chuckling, searching and scowling; we see him rubbing his brow and thinking aloud…”

Inspector Watt 3/31/21 Inspector Watt 3/31/21

Anvil and Rose 10

In this latest Anvil and Rose, Inspector Watt reviews books by Agustín Guambo, David Lehman, J. Michael Martinez, Maureen N. McLane, and Chelsey Minnis.

Adam Elkhadem 3/28/21 Adam Elkhadem 3/28/21

Octave 34

Octave’s most difficult adventure might be…doing nothing?

Will Schreitz 3/28/21 Will Schreitz 3/28/21

Casper and Fauntleroy 12

In order to accomplish great feats, sometimes one must find help from unlikely sources…and the Chemist might have found the most unlikely of them all!

Adam Morris 3/26/21 Adam Morris 3/26/21

On São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos

Adam Morris reviews Padma Viswanathan’s new translation of São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos. “The novel is at once a merciless satire of social class in postcolonial Brazil, and a sensitivity reader’s worst nightmare.“

Daniel Elkind 3/23/21 Daniel Elkind 3/23/21

Canvases

Four prose pieces by Dan Elkind.

John Olson 3/22/21 John Olson 3/22/21

Poetry: John Olson

However outlandish the utterance, however devious the digression, or pained the disclosure, an Olson poem conveys and keeps a somber promise, that words will not fail.