Features by John Shannon

2009-07-08 The Year of Five Liberations (5 of 5)
What is true, what is self-deception, and what is merely the formalized necessity of hopefulness that you adopt when you set out on a path with others toward any goal at all?
2009-06-24 The Year of Five Liberations (4 of 5)
There were abrupt local crises to rise to and long-planned events like Maydays and film showings and always the outrages in the wider world that had to be addressed in some way.
2009-06-10 The Year of Five Liberations (3 of 5)
It’s so easy to patronize your own excitably earnest youth.
2009-05-27 The Year of Five Liberations (2 of 5)
“I’m sorry” is not really a political response.
2009-05-13 The Year of Five Liberations (1 of 5)
If you passed through that crucible, you learned who you were.
2007-12-18 What We Talk About When We Talk About What’s Gone
The seediest sailor joint serves its time as part of a vast nexus of cultural bric-a-brac.