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“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it.” – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Art by Carl Sun I INTRODUCTION What is in a name? For some, see Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, for example, a name is nothing but a superficial title, interchangeable with any other word. However, throughout all of human history, names have carried much weight in shaping the identity of a person. In much of Europe, du

Art by Terry Miyashita Do you remember that corner store? The one we would go to after school? When we were all toiled by the sun, in white uniforms forever stained from playing with muddy basketballs. Do you remember? The corner store with the two wooden wicker chairs out front, the ones we would finish our ice creams on while swinging our legs, the ones we would shiver in when our feet finally touched the ground, the ones that cradled our bodies as we grew. I went to fi

The file lands on my desk two hundred years thick, and I solve it on page one. It’s a missing person job, but not the usual kind. Everybody in this file is present and accounted for. Named, counted, measured, photographed against a ruler, filed. The one who’s missing is whoever did it. I start reading. Sovereignty was acquired. Acquired, like taste. The verb sits in the middle of the sentence with nobody holding it. Somebody took something from somebody. Three parties to tha