Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
All Categories - Journal of the Plague Years
March 11, 2025 ·
2028 is Coming
March 9, 2025 ·
Jim Carrier As I watch America’s elite institutions abandon diversity, equity and inclusion...
March 9, 2025 ·
Joan Juliet Buck Fierce winds all night. N rescued the garbage cans from the middle of the...
March 2, 2025 ·
When Trump 2.0 hit, we thought "surely this is too terrible to joke about." No more meme...
March 1, 2025 ·
Mikal Gilmore Jan. 21 Nullification. That’s where my thoughts finally landed, lying there...
February 28, 2025 ·
Trigger warning: Watching the Jerry Springer-like cascade of Trumpian lies while Ukrainian...
February 23, 2025 ·
February 15, 2025 ·
Lucian Truscott IV Celebrated as a novelist and screenwriter, and most recently as a Salon.com...
February 15, 2025 ·
Marc Cooper What a difference a 14-hour plane ride makes! There I was basking in the 90-degree...
February 15, 2025 ·
Roger Benham He awoke to the sea of his youth renamed, a caprice of the new king. The name...
February 15, 2025 ·
Après John, le deluge
February 8, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin It’s beautiful in southern California right now. Spring, perhaps false spring, rife...
February 8, 2025 ·
Amy Rigby How do you know you've really moved? Get a mammogram - I’m all signed up for the...
February 8, 2025 ·
Lisa Alvarez The young woman went alone. The journey required a bus, then an hour-long train...
February 8, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin The media missed the story on Pete Hegseth. Even Rachel Maddow, patron saint of the...
January 21, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin Few outside observers believed that Joe Biden would commute the sentence of...
January 20, 2025 ·
Kathy Goss Now that we need to evacuate the palace, we find that all the cardboard boxes have...
January 18, 2025 ·
Marc Cooper Greetings from Santiago. I was visiting friends and family here as January 6 came...
January 18, 2025 ·
Mike Madrid January 7th was my first day out of the house in weeks. I had spent the holidays...
January 18, 2025 ·
John Kruth According to a Passamaquoddy Indian named George I met at a rest stop on the...
