Prose

Kata, a novel excerpt

Stacy Mattingly

The following is an excerpt from my novel, Kata, which tells the story of a deteriorating friendship between two women—one Croatian, one American—living in present-day Sarajevo. The American, Yancey, narrates.

Out in the courtyard, Jude gave me the milk and half a bag of espresso. It was after eight, and I still had a thirty-minute walk. I texted Kata but heard nothing back and worried I’d upset her, but then I thought, This is life. Things happen. Kata and I aren’t under the gun to see a movie by a certain time. No one has to wake up at dawn. I didn’t feel like waiting for a tram, and I wasn’t going to take a taxi on such a beautiful night. Jude walked with me to Begova Džamija. He kissed my cheeks politely near the entrance to the secret pekara …

Using Galaxy Clusters to Search for the Most Distant Objects in the Observable Universe

Dr. Felipe Andrade-Santos

Caramel and Chocolate Can Both Have Sea Salt

Gabrielle Honore

Willemien’s Promise

Paula Srur Carcar

Well, What Would Lincoln Do?

John Burt

Refugee Stories from Odesa, Ukraine

Translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

Two Short Stories

Naomi Leites

Student Book Reviews from Prof Beth Denisch’s class: Music, Gender and Society

Bucha Spring

Ksenia Rychtycka

Music

On the Formation of Clouds

Brian Turner

Late in 2017, with a breeze off the Bay of Bengal stirring through the tongue-shaped leaves, I sat under an ancient banyan and listened to the voices of birds I couldn’t name while that banyan moved imperceptibly closer to the waters of the Indian Ocean.

I recorded the birds in the branches as they called out to one another. I recorded the birds as they flew away and as they rowed their wings through the morning air and as they made their way into canopies of light and shade. I thought about where I was on this planet, and just how lost I was in my life. …

Escape Velocity

Joel Peckham

Tuning in to Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony

Katherine Dacey

Two Essays on the Body—Love, Broken, Beauty.

by Brian Turner

Kinds of Blues: 3 Songs & 3 Poems

Cornelius Eady

The Superpower of Conducting: Women Rise to the Podium

Anna Rakitina, Assistant Conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Ghost Session

Pete Mullineaux

Peter Pan is Rock & Roll: Are Aging Musicians Still Relevant?

Paul Robert Mullen

Letter for Berklee

Steve Vai

Poetry

Selected Poems: Ferida Duraković and Selma Asotić

A character in Ferida Duraković’s poem “Cosmos blossoms, Sarajevo” gestures to a building destroyed in war and says, “Still, this city is incredible.” Three Sarajevo-based or -born artists have contributed to this package of work, exploring themes such as home, isolation, loss, love, wartime, migration, and aftermath. Ferida Duraković co-founded Bosnia and Herzegovina’s PEN chapter in 1992 during the siege of Sarajevo and served as its executive director for more than twenty years. She is a major voice in the region’s literature and has mentored and encouraged a wave of younger writers, including Selma Asotić. Literary translator Mirza Purić provided new translations of several of Ferida’s poems written before, during, and after the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Along with his translations, the feature includes the original Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) texts. Selma Asotić, a bilingual poet from Sarajevo now based in the US, released her award-winning …

Pachysandra & Two Other Poems

Kimiko Hahn

The Ceasefire and 3 Other Poems

Paula Srur Carcar

FUSION Presents a Raucous Night of Performed Poetry: Berklee’s Spoken Word & Slam Poetry classes and The Garden

Camelot Vampires Unleashed: 12 Poems in Traditional Forms from Pat Pattison’s Poetry Workshop

4 Poems from Wayne Wild’s Liberating Aesthetics Course

Vajra (Water song)

Kevin O’Keefe

Five Poems

Ziyi Wu

Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky

Film

GUADAGNINO – <em>CINÉASTE DE AUTRE TEMPS, or the death of the auteur and rebirth of the artisan</em>

GUADAGNINO – CINÉASTE DE AUTRE TEMPS, or the death of the auteur and rebirth of the artisan

Sean Brennan

Though Luca Guadagnino has of late become one of the cinema’s premier aesthetes, his demeanor when speaking about his work resembles a producer rather than a director of his renown. In interviews, he is just as inclined to spend ample time delving into minutiae of production design in his works as he is to rhapsodize the influence of aesthetes such as Bertolucci on his cinematic education. Indeed, many of his recent projects as director have spawned from him ‘reluctantly’ taking the reins when no one else would, moving easily from the producer’s chair to the director’s. And yet his body of work br¬¬eathes with a joy and a love for the cinema which, like all great cinéastes, has the potential to penetrate the material work of craftsmanship, always striving to access something deeper. A self-described “stalker of master filmmakers”, Guadagnino’s …