by Sara Aster As the decade of the virus plods on, I have been seeking refuge from the fear and monotony of daily living in houseplants. It’s trendy now—to own plants. People have tried to pathologize my generation to explain this trend. They say millennials are too poor or flighty for pets or children, and …
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by Selen Ozturk “‘Form follows function’ is a planetary lie.” —Paolo Soleri In a Rolling Stone feature on the architect Paolo Soleri, Thomas Albright describes architecture as a compromise between prostitution and dictatorship, between developers plying drafts to bidders and visionaries plying societies by their schemes. Arcosanti welds Soleri to the latter. Arcosanti is a …
They come into the world red-streaked and steaming. Blind and not worth much, roughed-up between worn hands and mother’s tongue. Coyotes maraud at dusk, gums raw with want. Gunfire invites them, signaling new life worth killing for. Tonight, the lambs will sleep on kitchen linoleum and drink stove-warmed colostrum. Dreaming beneath the sound of starving …