The Other

It’s the very last day of 2014, and I wanted to post one more installment of TheThe Infoxicated Corner before we take off a few (more) weeks, and I catch y’all again a bit later into the New Year. I can’t believe Infoxicated went live at the beginning of September: the past few months have [...]

Anyone with decent vision can spot the differences in the two photographs below, but to fully appreciate each incarnation of this house as a work of art, you must first know something about . The Heidelberg Project was started by Tyree Guyton, with his grandfather, Sam Mackey, in Detroit, Michigan, in 1986. They started The [...]

Repeating the Alarm …when he sings he has the most wonderful voice. —Hillary Cook, dentist The neighbor’s house is an empire and the empire is shut tight tonight. And all the lights are off in the empire and all the doors are locked keeping everything imperial inside, where it leans toward the window unseen. The [...]

Mary Tewksbury is a whiskey-swiggin’, bluegrass-pickin’ singer-songwriter from upstate New York, who frequently performs solo, as well as with the band Next to Kin. She got this tattoo to carry with her a representation of “strong and beautiful women taking a hold of life.” For Tewks, this concept is bound up with her love of [...]

​In relationships, how do we manage our multiple selves? Can we truly be the same person alone and with others? The Green Condition, by Elizabeth J. Colen, explores the notion of the self. Part collage, part lyric essay, and part animal invocation, Colen traverses different spheres: Roman history, the domestic space, poetic space, academia, loneliness, [...]

Just in time for November’s end, this week’s feature offers a heady mix of augury and inspiration. Here’s the stunning title poem from Kirun Kapur’s new book, a powerful first first collection that charts indelible histories. Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist I don’t know when I realized he had one eye that watched me, alive, the [...]

Note: The first of the three poems below is a continuation of the above excerpt from Zenith — written in the voice of Mina, Coco’s mother and a Romani poet, “Mina the Lotus” is from Zenith‘s book-within-a-book, titled Eating the Midnight Lotus. Mina the Lotus A conversation between Mina and Sati Sara, the Romani Goddess [...]