Cain’s Vilification/Lerer-Smelcer-Young

Cain’s Vilification/Lerer-Smelcer-Young

© 2010 by Evan Henderson & John Smelcer; used with permission   Cain’s Enduring Vilification in Western Literature ** by Seth Lerer, John Smelcer, and Bard Young   Who is Cain? Why have so many cultures sheltered the myth of Cain in one form or another, the...
Gabriele Viertel/Photographer Interview

Gabriele Viertel/Photographer Interview

© 2014 Gabriele Viertel The Virgin 2 vvv vvv “Follow Me to the Depths”   by Chuck Haupt Ragazine Photo Editor   v The photographs of Gabriele Viertel,  a self-taught photographer living in Holland,  have been described as magical, classical,...
Stephanie Golisch/CNF

Stephanie Golisch/CNF

v You Come from a Beautiful Country by Stephanie Golisch   Ten in the morning and the sun broils my dark hair. I trail behind my husband, Chris, and our friend, Frank. We hike in silence through the meadows that skirt the mountains in the Guangxi province of...
Post WWII Photography in Japan

Post WWII Photography in Japan

Photographs from the new exhibition that reflects on the turbulent period that followed the Second World War.  ffff Metamorphosis of Japan After the War * * * Curated by Tsuguo Tada and Marc Feustel at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England, UK 22 January – 26...
Art Kane / Photographer

Art Kane / Photographer

©Art Kane The Who | 1968   ‘It starts with the concepts. I consider myself a conceptual photographer. I want to communicate the invisible elements in a personality.’ ON ART KANE: with Jonathan Kane & Holly Anderson Art Kane (1925 – 1995) was one of the...

Jeannine Hall Gailey/Poetry

 —————————- 5 Poems by Jeannine Hall Gailey   Oak Ridge is a Mystery It cannot be penetrated because of the dark leaves of the oaks and maples, standing so close you can hear them whisper, “Keep out.” The...
Fiction/Kristen Clanton

Fiction/Kristen Clanton

Photo by Elvissa   v Squeeze Box by Kristen Clanton   Before she was found beneath the interstate, her face half-missing, her body stripped clean, except for the fingers with their golden rings, Destiny’s mother stayed busy. It was in the audience of...
On Location/France

On Location/France

Collection Pickpocket by Giller Berquet fff Gilles Berquet : Viewer and « voyeur » * * * by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret * * * Photography allows one to postulate a certain truth about the body that is far from being purely entertaining or of practical utility. In the...
Felix Kubin/Music

Felix Kubin/Music

    In October 2014 Finders Keepers Records released a compilation of music from the home recording scene of the early 1980s in Germany. This important collection documents the mood of those times, as well as representing the primeval ooze out of which the...
Photo Editor’s Choice / March-April 2015

Photo Editor’s Choice / March-April 2015

©2014 Mark Richards Breadline Cafe, Duncannon Street, London vvv vvv Capturing Darkness and Light vvv The inspiration for this series of photographs came from the famous painting ‘Nighthawks’ by Edward Hopper, which is a masterful work capturing the interaction...

Lyn Lifshin/Poetry

   LIPS   Yours, honey, were so perfect, a little rosebud mouth, not those puffed up blubbery things, my mother says when I pointed out the models’ collagen petals. “Roses,” my mother always says, “That’s what yours were, a nice tiny nose. That’s from...
Rosy Lamb/Art-Interview

Rosy Lamb/Art-Interview

© Rosy Lamb Harriet (two), oil on plaster | 120×95 cm | 2013 vvv fff ROSY LAMB: American Artist in Paris vvv Interview by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret On Location/France vvv By her seizing upon feminine intimacy, Rosy Lamb does not look for indecency. Her models partially...
Eric Ross/Music Review

Eric Ross/Music Review

Mary Ross photo Eric Ross performing at the Theremin Festival in Germany.  * * * Eric Ross – Music From the Future * * * (For Theremin and Ensemble) * * * Review by Fred Roberts * * * It’s a shrewd move to call an album Music From the Future. In the first place...
Art Therapy & Drawing From the Past

Art Therapy & Drawing From the Past

Artist José MarÍa Sicilia at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, offers art as a mirror and a door to the past for Alzheimer patients. The Ghost, The Mirror and Narcissus * * * Visiting José María Sicilia at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House by Zach Seeger In a coffee shop...
True Tales of a Fictitious Spy/Excerpt

True Tales of a Fictitious Spy/Excerpt

* * * * * * “Charles de Gaulle’s Top Spy” * * * * * * The following is an excerpt from True Tales of a Fictitious Spy: A Hungarian Gulag Grotesquerie, written by Ferenc Aladár Györgyey and Paul Sohar, with contributions from  György Faludy, Gyula...