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…

Microeditorial: Cyberlimpiastination

  Cyberlimpiastination. You’ve never heard of it, but you’ve done it. You’ve never heard of…

Washington Heights Blue Series

  Today I felt a little blue and so I hunted for more blue This…