A Website of the Radical Imagination
Reeva Steenkamp Cameras adore him — that chiseled face, all angle and shadow, bright with tears. He sobs about waking from nightmares, won’t look at the picture of what used to be my head. His beauty blazes from each newspaper and magazine as they sell his cripple to hero myth. Me they confuse with Nicole … Read more
Occupational Therapy I coffee-stain my pages now learned how in O.T. crazy maybe but nothing gonna come between decoupage and me ceramic fisherman christmas trees half of us high on Jesus the other half on our knees vance killed himself before his project was through I went in with glue and popsicle sticks to see … Read more
Jerk De Soleil I was wide open outside my frame when the whole world burst into my latest flame she stunned me with her dictionary where all the words are mean it’s a thick motherfucker from cover to cover and nothing but hate in between I was wide open she stormed away that’s why I’m … Read more
Cameras adore him— that chiseled face, all angle and shadow, bright with tears. He sobs about waking from nightmares, won’t look at the picture of what used to be my head. His beauty blazes from each newspaper and magazine as they sell his cripple to hero myth. Me they confuse with Nicole Brown, Bonnie Bakley, … Read more
Bernard Avishai has been working on an article set to appear soon in The New York Times Magazine based on exclusive recent interviews with Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas that indicate the two leaders were very close to achieving a peace deal two years ago. Details about Palestinian concessions during those negotiations have been leaked … Read more
I went to Cairo a couple of years ago to attend a conference on international health. It was held at a hotel down the hill from the pyramids at Giza and on a free day I did my touristy duty. The pharoahs’ tombs didn’t get me too high. Maybe because I kept my head down … Read more
This is a (slightly adapted) version of a lecture Kanan Makiya gave last week at the University of New Hampshire. Makiya contrasts the relative progress made by Iraq’s victims-become-citizens with the dithering (and worse) of the country’s political class. His unillusioned, yet undespairing analysis clarifies the situation on the ground. It also hints why Makiya … Read more