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Issue 3

When Your Favourite Author is Dead to You

When Your Favourite Author is Dead to You

Sex abuse allegations have cast shadows over Neil Gaiman's writing. Where do his readers go from here? Four years ago, when her then-five-year-old daughter wanted a bedtime story, Kathryn Weber-Boer read her the short story "Cinnamon.” The children's fantasy tale, first

Memory of Childhood

Memory of Childhood

In the night, you see a crumpled shirt, you threw aside to get quickly into bed. Now it stares back at you in the darkness, a terrifying spectre. You wonder, “Should I rearrange the shirt quickly without being overwhelmed by its power?” You take the risk, and a new and

Hold Still

Hold Still

Hold still, but softly Place your hands where you see the marks Remember the way he used to hold it? We’re headed for a long journey with no turns in sight At least for a while The desire to let go boils in my stomach And yet those are

Freedom of the Press (Within Reason): The West Wing’s Polite Censorship

Freedom of the Press (Within Reason): The West Wing’s Polite Censorship

In Sorkin’s Camelot, the Fourth Estate is welcome only when it kneels. If there ever was a face of the eight-year-long, beleaguered Bartlet administration, plagued by a self-fulfilling persecution complex, it would have to be the one and only Claudia Jean Cregg — the White House press