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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. • From Gustave Flaubert, the 19th century French [...]
How I finally learned to stop worrying and love the prom
So tonight, gotta leave that nine to five up on the shelf, and just enjoy yourself. • A line from [...]
Resurrecting denial
There is no rationality in the Nazi hatred: it is hate that is not in us, it is outside of [...]
Thoughts on ethical culture
The restaurant at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay conjures up the bustling atmosphere of the train station this museum once was. The [...]
On Christmas carols
The day was a cold one. The rooftops on Main Street in Flers, the town where I attended high school, [...]
Fiction: “I Found Out, 3”
The penny-wagon worked its way up past Central Park West, before heading over to the Baptist Church on 79th Street. [...]
The Queen’s Suite
In 1958, Queen Elizabeth II and jazz legend Duke Ellington met for the first time at an arts festival in [...]
Open letter to James Baldwin
A letter from Will Keppler Robinson, young writer on the cusp of adulthood to James Baldwin, a writer who needs [...]
I found out, 2
The government men were standing in the doorway, broad-shouldered, uncaring. The kind of men nobody stood a chance against. As [...]
I found out
I managed to return to my apartment just as curfew was beginning. The alarms produce such a dreadful sound — [...]
Finding hidden shapes
The lights are regulated correctly, there is a perfect distance between my bass and the amp, between my mouth and [...]
On Armistice Day
On a day when everyone searches for peace, columnist Will Robinson muses on the history of a protest song.