Featured Pieces:

Trekking in the Concrete Jungle: How Urban Design Can Save the World [by Matthew Willse]

Daily log 7/1/05 6:05 pm - Curitiba, Brazil. Cobblestone streets, created by 17th century settlers, intersect with dedicated busways, the smoothest and cleanest roads that I have yet encountered here in Brazil. (Read More)

The Unclean Hand [by Sarah Hotchkiss]

I'm hunched over a crossword puzzle, spinning my pencil between my left fingers. "I didn't know you're left handed," a friend says, surprised and enthusiastic. If I had a nickel for every time someone said that to me, I could buy a shirt that says "LOOK HERE, A LEFTY" and spare everyone the trouble...(Read More)

Estrogen Taxi [by Alison Nguyen]

As Janice, a driver for Walsh Cab, made a right onto Angell Street, I asked her how she got into the cab business. She looked at me in the rear-view mirror with unusually large blue eyes semi-covered by thin red bangs and smiled...(Read More)

A Translation of Jean-Pierre Simeon's Evening Poem [by Emily Drumsta ]

In an evening made from the whirling of winds
from the slap of laughter
where the skinny silhouette of a beggar
was chasing itself across the asphalt
where an entire sky of abandon
weighed on the napes of passersby
where light yellow handkerchief
ran in the gutters ah just
like a fallen god calling forth
the fats of the city... (Read More)