Thirty Years Ago, the Beginning of the End of the Yugoslav Federation

Tommaso Di Francesco il manifesto
The wars behind the breakup of Ygoslavia left hundreds of thousands of victims. Tribunals have blamed only local criminals, but not international ones—as they probably never will. Because here too, the truth was the first victim of the internal war.

Trauma Walks into a Bar

Melissa Spohr Weiss Tar River Poetry
In this ode to the walking wounded, poet Melissa Spohr Weiss reminds us that trauma has consequences, that “trauma births trauma births trauma.”