Colloquium » Issue 5

ESSAY by Gerard Leone “We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing ar...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/notes-on-corruption-from-a-lawyer-in-embryo/

ESSAY & RECIPES by Melissa Leighty It is fall in Barcelona. The air is still warm, although the clouds roll in. Sweaters are donned, light scarves called pañuelos appear. The sun offers a milk...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/leighty/

ESSAY by Anurag Advani The last sun of the century sets amidst the blood-red clouds of the West and the whirlwind of hatred. The naked passion of the self-love of Nations, in its drunken deliriu...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/the-patriotic-gurudev-rabindranath-tagores-dalliance-with-nationalism/

POETRY by Noor Shawaf As Such To Know A monk wants to know where lie fate’s seams what the novel knows, bildungs into ease, plotted graces out of words, periodic thinking as life allows withou...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/three-poems-of-profession/

ESSAY by Kate Blair I’m watching my cat, Ira, curled up on my legs as I type. He sleeps when he wants, expresses his distaste with being handled too much, licks his genitals in mixed company....

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/animal-behavior/

POETRY by Hao Guang Tse Practical ConsiderationsBirth a spot welder’s flames from the gutsof two microwaves dumped by tall, dark strangers.You are a rotten man, Frank, and I neverwant to see y...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/two-poems/

ESSAY by Mercedes Trigos It is rare to find a play that does not begin by giving us the setting, thus immediately shaping the way we interpret the action. Yet, because it seems so obvious and so ...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/a-space-open-to-sexuality-the-verandah-in-tennessee-williamss-the-night-of-the-iguana/

VISUAL ART by Anya Ciccone   Artist’s Statement: I didn’t start drawing until four years ago, but I knew precisely how I wanted to draw long before. I am a finger painter; after drafting a ...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/three-portraits/

LETTER from the Editors One of my favorite pastimes is collecting and telling jokes, especially wordplay jokes. Words are fun to play with, and they lend themselves to whimsy and malleability. Th...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2014/11/05/editors-note-3-2/