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“Their understanding of use as essentially positive underwrote the casual ways they consented to being used, particularly intellectually, by one another.” On the intellectual, political, and artistic collaborationbetween Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin. | Lit HubBiography
“Let all your gentle brightness go with age / where all our ages go. Mother, goodnight. / The dying light is gone. You needn’t rage.” Read three poems by Robert Fanning from the collection,All We Are Given We Cannot Hold. | Lit HubPoetry
The Fire Inside explores the writings of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin through a Dharmic lens, revealing how two of America’s greatest literary voices reflect—and expand—Buddhism’s most timeless truths toward justice and liberation.
