The Follies File

Office of Inclusive Experience Memorandum: Content-Safety Review for Humanities Materials Reviewer: Adjunct Associate for Emotional Risk Mitigation Dear Colleagues, In keeping with the new Compassion Framework (v. 5.3), I have completed this semester’s audit of literary materials. Our goal, as always, is to ensure that students encounter no

After a True Farce The hearing began at 10:07. There was a brief delay: someone had parked in the magistrate’s space and left a peach yoghurt behind. We stood. The judge entered sideways, adjusting her robe as if betrayed by it. The clerk intoned the case number, an

We thought it was music. If we were war, we’d call it necessary. We’d speak of strategy, flags, lines drawn and redrawn. We’d praise discipline, honour the dead, forget the fire. If we were famine, we’d call it balance – a long lesson, a reckoning. We’d