He was also the Great Deregulator.” T here is little we can say about former President Jimmy Carter—who will lie in state in ...

Speaking of Creation, Eve plays a starring role in The Goodbye Kit in the wittily titled “Sometimes Eve Gets Drunk Enough to ...

“Doom is there staring, everywhere/I go, like a brazen coyote/dead center of the road/half-starved so it doesn’t care anymore ...

Reviving a Merion West tradition, I present here a list, though not a ranking, of some of my favorite articles that Merion ...

In the remainder of his response, Block leaves aside the specifics of political economy (and thus the vast majority of what I wrote) to riff about egalitarianism as a general moral impulse. Much of ...

And ladies out there who want a bit of girl power in this election, let me tell you something. How can you win when the sons ...

“The hand drops a fresh globe/into the scoured skull, secures breath upon/the hemispheric nostrils and stands back,/appraising…” ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...