Caterwaul Quarterly is a web-based collective which aims to create a forum for engagement with the world from a variety of sharp angles. CQ features critical analysis, reflection, and expression on politics, science, and the arts. By exploring the contours of these divisions CQ stands witness to synthesis, dissonance, and the transformative aspects of human experience.

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Politics & Society

Caterwaul Quarterly and the State of the American Periodical

Taking a look back, an introduction to our endeavor.

Iraq 2012

Will a Democratic or Republican president get us out of Iraq any time soon? The Editor of Middle East Report thinks not.

The Great American Center

Change, leadership and the smooth tranquility of post-ideological politics.

Between Iraq and a Hard Place: The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

Turkey goes to war against the Kurds. In Iraq.

Review: Black Books of Neoliberalism

Violence, confusion and economic policy implementation. A discussion of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism.

From the Sports Editor: Giant Steps

A look at Super Bowl XLII, personal injuries and a case for socialized medicine.

Literature

Audible

Between faith and fanaticism
the average distance is five and a half inches...

Thanksgiving

I wake falling,
speaking my own language...

Lunch box

My mama leaves rocks shocking bright
in my lunch box, and when I was little...

Tar Takes a Picture

These days, taking a photo is harder than you think.

Review: But how explicit does it really need to be? Walter Mosley’s Killing Johnny Fry

Sex is not just a sensation in Killing Johnny Fry.

The Beard

Do you wonder what that beard really says?

Arts

Amateur Hour

What to do with that old horn?

Palestine & Palestinians: A Culture of Survival Amidst a Ravaged Geography

For most Americans, Palestine does not exist. Yet it is present enough to be a faceless enemy.

Moiré patterns: textiles, wallpaper, nature/colors, patterns and designs.

The optical effects create movement on the canvas, and play tricks on your eyes.

The Life and Times of Peppi Feller

Peppi Feller has lived in the same apartment in Brooklyn, New York for over fifty years. For the last thirteen, she has lived here alone and struggles to find joy in life without her husband.

Heard Over Sandcastles

A study in transience

Review: Irony in Spanish Eighties Pop

Why was Spanish eighties music so funny?

Scaterwaul Quarterly

Amuse yourself with the musings of an inquisitive tampon.

Popular Science

Bread of Black Gold: Mycoremediation in the Amazon

Cleaning up Texaco's Amazon oil mess with mushrooms.

Will Zetia Save Your Heart?

Questions mount over the failure of a widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drug to promote arterial health.