Features
Zimbabwe is in turmoil. The delayed release of presidential election results has spread fears that incumbent Robert Mugabe, a dictator who has ruled the country for 28 ...
Seeds of worry
Charles Mostoller, a former Daily editor, reports from Mexico’s movement against genetically modified corn
After 14 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement’s devastating effects on the majority of Mexican farmers, Mexico’s food system now faces another serious ...
Hello Daily reader! Believe it or not, we’ve only got one more issue left this year. But we’ll come back in September, and when we do, we want to be a better newspaper. ...
History of a food fight
With students boycotting corporate campus cafeterias today and tomorrow, Shayla Cilliak and Maggie Schreiner reflect on the
Students are a vulnerable population. Strapped for time and hungry for fuel, we often end up dependent on campus food outlets for our three square meals – ...
haverford, pennsylvania 2001
Literary Supplement
Two friends from high school. I shot their picture outside my parents’ house, six months before my dad moved out. This roll of film was the first I managed to properly ...
two untitled poems
Literary Supplement
i saw you on whatstoday whatstoday ...
Gordon the incredible
Literary Supplement
Gordon LeBarre was born in 1913, and has spent almost every day since then in Hamilton, Ontario, straying only periodically to attend the various acclaimed theatre ...
peninsula ethos
Literary Supplement
because I have to believe in orchids and dolomite, the way
you have to believe in waking up, in Euclid;
otherwise,
what have I got
to stand on
...
a leading out
Literary Supplement
The mother
Takes the hand of the girl
After eye surgery—
Cataracts they said—
And leads her from the house
Under the dark mosque of clear
...
shirts
Literary Supplement
At the confluence of three streets stood Elisabeth’s building, anchored to the corner against the tides of the city. The house faced onto a small traffic circle ringed ...
repair
Literary Supplement
There was always something broken in the house. No matter how they tried to prevent accidents, things in that house just had a faulty way about them. Over the years ...
a train named engineuity
Literary Supplement
“So you see it is not really the state of things that matters, at least not in the way you understand it. What is more plausible is the being that they possess, you ...
chlorophyll
Literary Supplement
He conjugates my synapses –
cell and cell filament
a spirogyra net
of singular structure. Mouths mouth words
typed papillae finger
syntax ...
superhero
Literary Supplement
If I was a superhero I would order custom made velour gloves and put them on and punch you. The comfort my fists would feel in the custom made velour gloves could ...
BANG BANG the cowboy says. YOU’RE DEAD. i think you’re mistaken I REPLY. you are the dead one cowboy. you are confined to misrepresentation in cinema and silly ...