Peter Marshall on Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens lived, for the most part, the life of the neighbor you would probably avoid.
Read MoreHow trans do you want to be?
As the oestrogen started to change her body, Jacques felt for the first time ‘unburdened by that disconnect between body and mind.’
Read MoreMay Upheavals by M. Munro
“Either ethics makes no sense at all,” Gilles Deleuze once wrote, “or this is what it means and has nothing else to say: not to be unworthy of what happens to us.”
Read MoreHospitals tend not to have a bar…
The government believes that death rates are going up because doctors are lazy, rather than because we’ve started making disabled people work on building sites.
Read MoreJesse Miksic: Ocean Drowning
There’s this feeling I get on the subway, when I reach a breakpoint in a book I’m reading, and I realize a whole chapter has just passed right through me without sticking, like my mind has secreted a Teflon coating.
Read MoreJeffrey A. Bernstein: Raddled, Squashed, Walking
What do we do when we walk? What happens to us? Do we walk in order to get somewhere? Do we walk to get our bodies moving? Our minds?
Read MoreJessica Sequeira: Foamed Just So
by Jessica Sequeira At the place where I worked a few years ago, two large windows looked out onto the city. From one you could see Retiro station, where a train deposited us every morning after gathering us up from the provinces. That was the view from the room where...
Read MoreFang Marks
We meet a fat diamondback five minutes down the trail. He is stretched across the path, dozing in the shade of a juniper bush.
Read MoreAnd in Sad Cypress
Before my departure for a trip to celebrate my mother’s ninety-eighth birthday, friends suggested that I read Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.
Read MoreShakespeare’s passing was an entirely local event…
It was not until seven years after his death that Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies were gathered together by his friends John Heminges and Henry Condell in an expensive edition, dedicated to William Herbert and his brother, that first laid claim to their status as high culture.
Read MoreSimon Calder at AWP16
At this year’s L.A.-based Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, Jeff Hoffman highlighted the naturalness with which Greenberg thus announces its central concern
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Long ago, when the Universality of a ‘Western Empire’ was both the premise and the purpose of political strategy the West’s identity was born.
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Gnomish Agnès Varda, with her mushroom cap of hair dyed the color of a dark, ripe cherry, with her visual groaners—she operates in the spirit of happenstance, fearless of mockery.
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Today because I am sufficiently connected here in my book-glutted home in Boston I have decided to make my little room an everywhere. As it so happens, I am hovering now above an area of greater London known as Mitcham that four-hundred years ago was an outlying village backwater away from the teeming intrigue and bustle of King James’ city and his court.
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A poem by Jennifer L. Knox: against my will/I believed I was/ the train brake, the electric fence
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My mother and I smoked cigarettes, drank wine, ate, walked around, went to galleries, museums, and movies; shopped, all the while covering a tireless range of subjects, as we always have. Minus the wine and cigarettes, my days with her were a lot like my childhood.
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