Microeditorial: It Matters. Vote!

On October 1st of this year, my cousin Kevin flew from Bogota to Barranquilla, Colombia…

Season of the Witch: On Mirrors, Dreams, Astrology and Survival — A Conversation with Wendy C. Ortiz

Born and raised in Los Angeles, where she now lives again, Wendy C. Ortiz is…

Microeditorial: Dario Fo Encounter

I was on the train heading to Venice. I had drifted off to sleep as…

Pussy, Redefined

As in cat, a feline word suggesting paws and claws.  Not to be confused with vagina, its clinical cousin scraped…

Sham Hardy
Small Animal, Big Animal

1. One of my favorite cartoon characters as a little girl, was Chilly Willy. In…

Microeditorial: Are we in trouble? Turkey Summer 2016

There were four of us in the flat. Helen used to live in Beirut; she’d…

Tía Milena / Milena Tía

“A quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos.” I never understood…

Mike Rastiello
Microeditorial: The History of Girls, Part II

My grandmother was a reader, my great-grandmother was a reader, my mother is a reader,…

Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Microeditorial: Hemingway’s Not-So-Strange Tribe As Told by Annet Sánchez

  In May of 2015, Nelly Rosario traveled to Cuba through MEDICC, a non-profit working to enhance…

Mothertime

  As a reluctant owner of a Great Russian Soul, I had always been interested…