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Editorials

The Writing on the Wall by Hattie Myers

The writers and artists in ROOM 2.25 bear witness to what must happen in ourselves, our communities, and our political movements for truth to be faced and change to occur. Some write from amidst genocide, others from their country’s fascist…

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Poems

oranges by Kathleen Hellen

Kathleen Hellen is the recipient of the James Still Award, the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review. Her debut collection Umberto’s Night won the poetry prize from Washington…

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Essays

Fomenting Antisemitism by Timothy Snyder

I’ve been teaching the Holocaust for the better part of my career at university and beyond. It seems to me that in all of the chaos of this Trump administration, their most consistent policy thus far, maybe even their single…

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Essays

Hard Feelings by Thomas Casagrande

When I look at the reactions of us Germans to the Hamas massacre, I think I recognize a repetition of the structure so familiar to me from the process of coming to terms with the Nazi era. Feelings are not…

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Art Mica, 2021

Emily Weiskopf

Emily Weiskopf (b. Syracuse, New York) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher based in Connecticut. She received a BFA from the Hartford Art School (CT) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture (Philadelphia/Rome, Italy). Weiskopf’s…

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Essays

Red Scare at City College by Iris Fodor

Roy Cohn brought his style of aggressive attacks to our campus. I too often saw him, an unattractive, thin man, agitated and angry, standing on a platform, holding a megaphone, giving speeches to my fellow students in the quad, yelling…

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Essays

The Wallet by Douglas H. White

I realize now that I am composed of the full inventory of the slights and dehumanizing aspects of racism I have known. But why did this story return so suddenly? Was it because many people were talking about racism and…

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Essays

Matt by Jay Wiggin

Matt was crazy, or that’s what some people said. Once, in the midst of a panicked and angry moment, he sat down right in the middle of Braddock Avenue and refused to move. Drivers honked in confusion and yelled out…

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Essays

Bike Week by Tamara Martin Causey

For 27 years it has been a local tradition. It is our little Sturgis. The town becomes unrecognizable but in a way that feels like the “rebellious, no rules, party of the century is here to stay” feeling. … And…

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Art Genesis, 2024 [Detail]

Tau Lewis

Tau Lewis (b. 1993, Toronto) is an artist who lives and works in New York. Lewis uses intricate craft processes to transform found textiles into monumental artworks, building a unique iconography informed by African diasporic communities in an act of…

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We Are the Light We Are the Light: No. 1

We Are the Light: No. 2

We are the Light is a forum and gathering place offering free and open expression to women from around the world whose voices are seldom heard and whose futures are threatened. The education and health of women, attention paid to…

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Essays

Why I Write by Thomas H. Ogden

For me, the art of being an analyst involves the art of writing—the two are inseparable, each opens the door to the other. Writing is like dreaming in that it is a medium in which I think and talk to…

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Poems

You Will Accuse Me of Sentimentality by D.M. Black

D.M. Black is a Scottish writer and retired Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. His translation and commentary on Dante’s Paradiso is due out in the NYRB Classics series in August 2025. A collection of psychoanalytic papers, Psychoanalysis and Ethics:…

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Community Projects

Zan Times

Zan Times focused our work on investigative and feature reporting. We also began training women journalists in Afghanistan over Zoom. In 2024, we trained more than 30 women journalists in Afghanistan, as well as a few in exile. Some of…

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