Welcome to After the Art’s twenty-ninth issue.
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“What Returns” by Jehanne Dubrow
“Where to Go” by Kennedy Phillips
“Time’s Arrow (Flies in Only One Direction)” by Jenny Apostol
Continue reading “After the Art – Issue 29 – September 2025”
by Jehanne Dubrow
In The Return, a recent cinematic retelling of The Odyssey, the opening shot shows us Telamachus who stares out at a violent ocean, perhaps thinking of the father he can’t remember. Continue reading “What Returns”
by Kennedy Phillips
No stopping. No sinking down. Like a branch
floats on water, the body does not go under.
Like a tree seeded among dark rocks, the body
leans where it must. Or fails.
– excerpt from Camille Dungy’s poem “Survival”
Do these four feel welcomed on the levee, do they feel they belong by the river’s side? Continue reading “Where to Go”
by Jenny Apostol
During the pandemic, stuck at home like everybody else and addicted to television, I binged a gritty French police drama called Spiral. Continue reading “Time’s Arrow (Flies in Only One Direction)”
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