2012 — The Monarch Review — Page 6
Strength In The Blues – An Interview With Cornel West
Sunday, September 9, 2012 14:43 — 1 Comment
It is the morning after the country’s historic Presidential election, 11:20 AM, November 5th, 2008. I have an appointment on the Princeton University campus and I am lost. I didn’t anticipate it being this humid and I am beginning to sweat under my grey wool sweater. About forty yards ahead, I see a man in a blue pinstriped suit walking on the sidewalk.
An Interview with Skillet’s Chef Josh Henderson
Friday, September 7, 2012 12:47 — 0 Comments
Know your chefs interview series, episode 1.
Bam! Bam! A Confetti Western From Abraham
Thursday, September 6, 2012 12:46 — 0 Comments
An album floated my way recently: Abraham’s 2011 release, Confetti Western. The first full-length by this Seattle three-piece is a 14 song lo-fi rock record with a ton of pop sensibility. Having had the day off when I received it, and it having been a perfect 75-degree cloudless day in Seattle, I figured the best thing to do was to take the album for a stroll around town. Here’s what I heard:
Christiana Latham
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 19:39 — 0 Comments
Our eyes open in the morning and our brains sift through the scattered remains of the dream world to find us in the fog like a child frantically running home after a fall. What if, as the fog cleared, the clarity of our identity followed suit, showing up alongside consciousness to answer the eternal question of who and why we are. How would we then get out of bed and put on our shoes? This persistent quest is fundamental; it both defines and motivates us. Christiana Latham tosses these questions both into the air and right at the viewer. While […]
Tea Partying – Thom Fain
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 12:44 — 1 Comment
TEA PARTYING, PT. I: A Weekend with the Radical Right in Washington, D.C.
Acceptable Losses – Brendan McDonnell
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:20 — 0 Comments
After they have all drank too much, after they have talked too long and laughed too hard and stayed too late, that is when Caroline starts in with her Deep Questions. Betty sees it coming and she wants to leave. She wants to load her husband Jimmy in the car and just go. But all of the other couples are staying, and even Jimmy, drunk as he is, seems willing to play. Betty joins the others around the kitchen table and folds her arms on her chest.
A Writer’s Dream – James Brantingham
Monday, September 3, 2012 11:57 — 1 Comment
August in Stuttgart, one day on the road
Bleu Bistro
Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:42 — 0 Comments
Forget the tacky, bottom-of-a-condo-complex façade, it’s only a trick. Inside, Bleu Bistro is a sort of Arabia-meets-Alice-in-Wonderland (meets quirky capital hill) – and a most decidedly worthwhile eatery.
Kim Van Someren
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 18:54 — 2 Comments
We seem to search for empathy in places that lack both windows or doors. We find affinity in the isolation of autonomy and search for a partnership that cannot exist. Because, while one may see, the other cannot. Kim creates monolithic beings, Forts, which I imagine have traveled alone since the onset of time. They are followed by the shadows they cast, not from their shape but from the dots, dashes and crisscrossed lines of their unstopping movement. While they appear to float in their effortless progression, the drag marks in the road beg to differ, since these are the […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
