“How did we get from some isolated Mexican healers using mushrooms in private rituals to the explosion of interest in psilocybin and other psychedelics that we see today in new spiritual movements, in scientific research, and in popular culture?”
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A treasury of Pittsburgh Italian American poets for Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month.
“Wonder into Another Shape of Wonder” and “Self-Made Phantom.”
A comics conversation between legendary New Yorker cartoonists Jason Adam Katzenstein and Roz Chast.
“How Much Sun,” “Saturday Morning,” “American Future,” “A Cigarette Butt on a Landing,” and “Air Waves.”
“Mourning the Death of a Child in Gaza” and “Negative Dialectics.”
“No other infrastructure has been as fraught as the public bathroom.”
“Activists know how little time there is to act on the climate crisis, and the dire consequences if we fail. But we can sometimes struggle to distinguish between progress and perfection.”
“The origin stories we tell about drugs, mythic, religious, and scientific, are a part of the creation of the drugs themselves.”
A poem by Kathy Fagan.
