Archive - Spine & Arp: The Series

Wake Island, May Edition

Jun 1 •

May 2025

The Feast of Fools

On Carnival, Imagination, and Heresy in the Age of the Trickster

May 21 •

"Weirdos of the Low Countries"

In the Theater of the Deep Spine

May 14 •

The Insurance Building

Atop the Beanstalk

May 2 •

April 2025

Rage of Mr. Derekis

War comes to Berkshire

Apr 10 •

March 2025

Conference Grounds in Shambles

Arp explores the ruins and finds a new home

Mar 26 •

February 2025

On the Faculty Club Roof

An inkling of the War to End All Wars

Feb 11 •

Seafloor Strewn with Clues

& ash from the War overhead

Feb 5 •

January 2025

Arp stays over...

Jan 24 •

Chapter 11: Leopold's Art Lesson

Jan 18 •

Nightmares in the Language of Kitsch

Great Berlin Wall essay in The Southwest Review

Jan 15 •

March 2021

Chapter 10: A Penance Play

I fall down and down and down, into a yet-deeper version of the story, which is also a version of the show I remember so well from my college days.

Mar 11, 2021 •

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