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Rattle / January 11, 2015

Agamemnon loved the black sails of Achilles because they didn’t belong to Troy. Americans stopped worrying and learned to love […]

Rattle / January 4, 2015

The birds are always a surprise, the way they dart among the airy metal trusses and peer at the shoppers,

Rattle / December 28, 2014

the street drummer calls out in Korean no doubt thinking it a compliment a pleasant surprise cinched with red ribbons

Rattle / December 25, 2014

Political Version ’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the House not a creature was stirring (nothing new about

Rattle / December 21, 2014

with lines and words by Jose Saramago and Robert Browning; for Peshawar, for our gods, and for the rest of

Rattle / December 14, 2014

Nothing he told us was true. But we wanted to hear it, how we wanted to hear it. We did