Issue.30

ALEXANDRA REALE On a narrow strip of land in the southeast of Bangladesh, there is a collection of temporary shelters and tents that spans many miles. Within its confines are…

SWEDIAN LIE With each passing, there is two kinds of death. The first happens in the material realm; the finite deterioration of muscle and sinew fighting the eternally futile battle…

TANISHA HUMPHREY “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas…

KATIE ROSENGARTEN “When in Rome… …die as the Romans die?” What might seem like a morbid spin on an otherwise commonly-overlooked phrase actually helps uncover the power of a tradition…

NORA ROSENGARTEN When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something…

WILLIAM HERNANDEZ LUEGE There are mystics who talk about what Heaven is like. Never stemming too far from metaphors and riddles, they say that Heaven would be something like an…

In this issue, we discuss death & mortality in the vein of the kinds of stories and performances we create around the loss of life as well as the boundaries…