For Your Penance - Merion West
Dec 13, 2024 · (Cottonbro Studio) “There is a fervor that I do not surge with,/A saintliness with which I do not sing.” There is an arc of maturation that. You wrote me a prescription for.
Start Making Sense: “Say Hello to Metamodernism” | Merion West
Dec 17, 2024 · (Megan Rosenbloom/Flickr) “ Just as [Greg] Dember’s generation inherited modernism and felt a need to rebel, today’s younger generations have inherited postmodernism and no doubt feel the same urge to keep the sense of cultural evolution progressing.” S ometime in the early 1980s, there was a point when rock bands …
A Three-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Dec 23, 2024 · Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. Newsletter Sign up with your email address below to receive our newsletter free newsletter every two weeks.
Why Postmodernism Still Matters - Merion West
Oct 5, 2024 · (Jürgen Habermas/photo by Wolfram Huke) “Finally, postmodernism influenced numerous intellectual variants that today are popular public philosophies, and we need to understand the intellectual foundations of such systems of thought if …
Skwentna, AK | Merion West
Dec 17, 2024 · (Lamont Mead) “The woods sigh. And then, a thousand miles away,/I’m in your arms again. Your breathing is an ocean./I’m drifting away. You whisper.”
The Many Problems with Marxism - Merion West
Apr 15, 2020 · (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences.
Little Engines of Self: Joy Manesiotis’ “Revoke” | Merion West
Dec 8, 2024 · Airlie Press “It is a remarkable feat of poetics to create epic sense out of the most micro of human materials.” I n tracing the origins of lyric from the monody of Greek melic poems to Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody!/Who are You?” David Baker reminds us that “lyric poetry is never merely about a self but is always also a social …
These People All Know Each Other - Merion West
Nov 16, 2024 · Erich J. Prince is the editor-in-chief at Merion West. With a background in journalism and media criticism, he has contributed to newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The News & Observer, as well as online outlets including Quillette and The Hill.
Mannequin Exposé | Merion West
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The Hand | Merion West
Dec 27, 2024 · Lalesh Aldarwish “The hand drops a fresh globe/into the scoured skull, secures breath upon/the hemispheric nostrils and stands back,/appraising…”