This week, the Boston Globe has rallied 200 newspapers nationwide to run editorials on freedom of the press in response to Trump’s indictment of the media as “the enemy…

Hunky Dory with permission by George Underwood   As I slid into the back seat of the gold 1969 Cutlass, the boy handed me a fat chalky pill with “LEMMON…

Two houseflies stun themselves against the hot bodies of fluorescent tube lights. An old man with the face of a basset hound fights to keep the phlegm inside. The innocuous…

People in the Room by Norah Lange And Other Stories, 2018 176 pages / And Other Stories   For 2018, publisher And Other Stories made a commitment to only publish books by…

I was lying on my lofted bed in the basement of my freshman dorm when my mother called to ask if I was pregnant. The only light came from a…

For this week’s Sunday’s List we asked Entropy contributors: What do you read to help during the grieving process? Rhys Nixon Moby Dick by Herman Melville Andrea Lambert On Grief and…

I step onto the porch and look for the rain. The sun won’t return until tomorrow, I know. But I need it. I crave rules. Facts. Certainty. Rely on the…

Steely Dan – Katy Lied (1975) That scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen sneezes on the pile of blow, but there’s so much blow that the only real problem…

[T]he trained hand does not forget its skill. –Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1950 Your past is on loop turn it off see this possible future and be in it –Björk,…

In Paris I was trying to buy a ticket for the fast train to Angers. Interrupting, the lady at the desk rattled off something, then laughed haughtily. In fractured French,…

Stamped: an anti-travel novel by Kawika Guillermo Westphalia Press, 2018 346 pages / Westphalia   Just a few weeks ago, I left China after spending almost a year in Chengdu, Sichuan.…

[Image Credit: Anastasiya Valiulina] Make an illogical jump—dissociation—but, then, imperceptibly—so, quickly—return to render it logical before anyone has seen. In this way, you may seem to improve upon reason. —Lucy Ives,…

Image Credit: Thomas Deininger Face it. Wallace Stevens was sucking up to death when he called her the mother of all beauty. I can’t blame him. My mother was a…

  HELLO MUSSOLINI runs every Wednesday as a part of The New Comics.  Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy submissions page. HELLO MUSSOLINI: Free Speech was…