15 Jul 2011, Posted by admin in Features, 0 Comments Tagged 2011, end times, Essay, Joanna Brooks, mormon, Non-Fiction, Spring

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

nonfiction by Joanna Brooks

So there I was: a Mormon girl in Republican Orange County during the Reagan years of the Cold War, watching the jets and helicopters traverse the skies over the orange groves, witnessing with my bodily and spiritual eyes the last hurrah of the Southern California military-industrial complex.

“You see,” my mother would say, standing by the swimming pool, pointing out all the strategic targets within a few miles of our house—south across the groves to El Toro Marine Base, then west across the asparagus and strawberry fields to John Wayne Airport, and the two massive concrete blimp hangars at the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station—“They’ll drop the bombs right on top of us.”

“We’ll be fine,” she says, her eyes on the horizon. “We’ll be gone in the twinkling of an eye.”

22 Aug 2010, Posted by admin in Issues, 0 Comments Tagged 2010, Esperanto, Fiction, Figure Modeling, Identity, James Agee, Poetry, Reviews, Spring, Stanley Cavell, Thoreau

Spring 2010

Ranen Omer-Sherman on Israeli writers and Levantine identity … Paul Anderson on Stanley Cavell and James Agee … Frank Meola on Thoreau in New York … Prose poetry from Philippe Jaccottet … reports on figure modeling from Robert Long Foreman and on a gathering of Esperanto devotees in Turkey from Esther Schor. Fiction by Laura Kasischke, Sharona Muir, Cameron Mackenzie. Plus many poems and a couple reviews …

19 Jul 2010, Posted by admin in Issues, 3 Comments Tagged 2008, American, Censorship, China, Chinese, Chinese-American, Fiction, Graphics, Non-Fiction, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Special Issue, Spring

Spring 2008

This issue contains writings about the territory of China–its people, its ways of thinking, its arts and media, its politics and social conditions. It also examines the presence of China in the imagination and behaviors of the Chinese diaspora, especially in the U.S. Edited by Laurence Goldstein.

30 Jun 2010, Posted by admin in Issues, 2 Comments Tagged 2000, Art, Artwork, Childhood, Contemporary, Fiction, Graphics, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Reviews, Special Issue, Spring, Storytelling

Spring 2000

In this special issue, authors from a variety of fields explore the imaginative world of childhood, how children seek refuge from adult society in realms that paradoxically ease their way into adulthood, carrying with them the felt memories of transcendent and transgressive experience, sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrible.