Andy Barnes

A review that finds joy in the creative crises and experimentation of the ALL DELIGHTED PEOPLE EP, the recent EP from Sufjan Stevens.

In this essay, Andy Barnes writes about his experience reading Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, while visiting the Philippines, and considers Pullman’s descriptions of the atomization of both body and soul, in the context of Manila’s slums.

In this essay, Andy Barnes writes about his experience reading Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, while visiting the Philippines, and considers Pullman’s descriptions of the atomization of both body and soul, in the context of Manila’s slums.

Andy Barnes explores the relationship between the music of Nick Drake and Sufjan Stevens and in particular their apocalyptic imagery.

Michele Clark works for the Protection Project, a legal human rights research institute, working to establish “an international framework for the elimination of trafficking in persons, especially women and children.” On March 4, I interviewed Michele Clark in her office at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C. about the […]

The full moon is pure liquid lantern light Flowing through the boardwalk to the sea. The sandcastles lie in the silver night, With the wind and the waves and you and me. We wait for the tide to sweep us away In gray swan ships of water and surf. The stars will all fail to […]