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Week 16: At Semester’s End
by Ayo Khensu-Ra Monday was the final class period for Forum this semester. In a way it’s hard to believe it’s all over and done with but within a week we (and you) could be holding a copy of the completed magazine, the very thing all that work was for. Monday was the last class…
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Aubrey, Maturin and HMS Surprise
HMS Surprise is the third in Patrick O’Brian’s popular and well regarded series of Aubrey/Maturin novels. The series is centered around the lives of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend naval surgeon and intelligence operative Dr. Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic War era. HMS Surprise was the first book in the series…
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My Stories Are Ending by Joseph Ramelo It’s been said that if Shakespeare were alive today, his bread and butter would be writing for soap operas. Sure, he’d probably still conjure up a Hamlet or Macbeth. But his day job? Probably similar to that of Agnes Nixon, the creator of All My Children and One…
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Found in translation
Poetry, Poesie, Poesia By James H. Miller I have an undying respect for poetry translators. I’ve never had the patience or discipline to truly learn a foreign language myself. I tried Spanish so that I might read Cesar Vallejo in the original, attempted German because I thought Goethe was really rad, and then French for…
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Nonsense in the current social order
The University of Resentment: Alan Kaufman’s Wild Idea By Kwame Opoku-Duku, Forum General Editor “I am very unhappy with current attempts throughout the universities of the Western world by a group I have called ‘the school of resentment’ to put the arts, and literature in particular, in the service of social change…pseudo-Marxists, pseudo-feminists, watery disciples of…
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México: Política y Poética
Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper and Animations By Katie Dalla, Forum Poetry Editor It’s not often that an art exhibit representing a country goes to the extent of actually showcasing remains of its own citizens. No, nobody’s limbs were severed and put on a podium, but Teresa Margolles’ vibrant yet grotesque 2003 piece, Papeles, brings…
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Curious George Saves the Day by Joseph Ramelo “Now they were right in the center of town. There was so much to see that George did not know where to look first.” (from Curious George Takes A Job) This weekend, the starving student and Bank of America customer that I am paid a visit to…
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Aubrey, Maturin and HMS Surprise by Forum editor HMS Surprise is the third in Patrick O’Brian’s popular and well regarded series of Aubrey/Maturin novels. The series is centered around the lives of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend naval surgeon and intelligence operative Dr. Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic War era. HMS…
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