A few months ago, I began to think about care, grief, and justice. Now, in these huge sets of crises: hundreds of thousands of people dying without ceremony from the coronavirus. And police brutality drawing attention to systemic racism in America. I wanted to dig as far down as I […]
Andri Alexandrou is a software engineer living in Athens, Greece. She has published nonfiction and arts criticism in Nashville, TN. ARA: How did you begin to think about our need for new fairytales? AJA: I took a long break from living with a smart phone after mine was stolen, […]
Andrea Applebee is a freelance editor and writing coach who lives in Athens, Greece. Her second book, Mercy Athena, is forthcoming in the Cahiers Series (Sylph Press).
Erika Weiberg is an assistant professor of Greek language and literature at Florida State University. She is writing a book about women in Greek tragedy. Erika Weiberg: There are two related questions being raised now by feminist thinkers about anger. How are women treated differently than men when […]
My responsibility is to tell you the truth. – Dr. Christine Blasey Ford I used to systematically read the comics each day after making myself and my sister lunch, but I’d over-think them. I liked to read collections of wise sayings and then try them out in imagined conversations […]
Aristotle believed the eel was spontaneously generated from the guts of wet soil. It is not. First its stomach dissolves and then it migrates 6000 km back to its spawning grounds. Catadromous: down-running, it lives in fresh water estuaries, but is born, breeds, and dies in the sea. I […]
The poems of Naomi Edwards are rooted in an awareness of loss and experience of a tenderness that has persevered. The images emerge with a pared down texture and rhythmic scaffolding, thoughtful but without fuss, like the loosely bound threads of a cloth laid over a frame. They […]
Aletheia is a Greek word often translated as ‘truth’, ‘unforgetting’, ‘unconcealedness.’ While in modern greek, it is used to confirm or express agreement, as in its rueful English parallels, ‘so true’ or ‘really?’, its etymological source is layered and elusive: combining the privative «A» (un-) with «lethe», a […]
Stesichorus, a Sicilian Greek who wrote sweet, extravagant poetry is most known for his palinode: That story is not true: you did not go on the well-benched ships, nor did you reach Troy’s citadel. (fr. 192, trans. Miller) According to Plato, he composed this after losing his […]
I recently returned from Athens, Greece—a place I encountered first as a student ten years ago, then five years later with a lover, and this time to stay with a friend. Wandering back through strangely familiar streets, I thought of Odysseus just before he reaches the island of […]
