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The Twilight of Feminism

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Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. Little Brown and Company,  2005.

---- New Moon. Little Brown and Company, 2006

---- Eclipse. Little Brown and Company, 2007

---- Breaking Dawn. Little Brown and Company, 2008

Illustration by Peter Oumanski

medford courtship song, or three instances of fog

I.
I turned the lights out
on the highway in the fog,

in the fog that you
had probably grown up in

forever. I got
lost and thought of past cowboys

in the middle of
this cloud who, staying out too

late, might not be found until
morning.

II.
Another fog: I
woke up so early without

having dreamt at all
and not wanting to stay on

til the civil dawn

Talking Latin in Plain English with Martha Altieri

Altieri, a longtime Latin teacher at Irvine's Woodbridge High School, interviewed on the virtues of learning a dead language.

Bolivia 9/11: Bodies and Power on a Feudal Frontier

Imagining politics as a form of war, we must ask:

What place is given to life, death, and the human body (in particular the wounded or slain body)?

How are they inscribed in the order of power?

The New Frugality: Coming to terms with the Great Recession