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.

Caterwaul Quarterly

(Illustration: Teresa Soto)

Politics & Society

Caterwaul Quarterly and the State of the American Periodical

Daniel Denvir

Taking a look back, an introduction to our endeavor.

Iraq 2012

Chris Toensing

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

Adam Goldstein

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

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

Osman Balkan

Turkey goes to war against the Kurds. In Iraq.

Review: Black Books of Neoliberalism

Matt Wasserman

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

Pete Shaw

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

Literature

Audible

a poem by Eric Lind

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

Thanksgiving

poems by Chalcedony Wilding

I wake falling,
speaking my own language...

Lunch box

a poem by Chalcedony Wilding

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

Tar Takes a Picture

a short story by Robert Y. Rabiee

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

Katarzyna Bartoszynska

Sex is not just a sensation in Killing Johnny Fry.

The Beard

a short story by Matthew Broad

Do you wonder what that beard really says?

Arts

Amateur Hour

a short film by Ryann Liebenthal

What to do with that old horn?

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

photos by Umayyah Cable

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.

three paintings by Julie Opperman

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

The Life and Times of Peppi Feller

photos by Shulamit Seidler-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.