Speculation on the History of Drawing
The tool,
A burnt stick,
Extends the body
…
Speculation on the History of Drawing; Speculation on the Little Ice Age
The Unreasoning Mask: The Shared Interior Architecture of Poetry and Memoir
Years ago when I first thought I might write about my sister’s suicide in prose, but had no idea how to approach it, I asked the essayist and poet Thomas Lynch, who wrote The Undertaking, a wonderful book about dying…
On Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
“There’s a theory that says there are billions of other universes, parallel to the one we live in, and that each of them is slightly different,” the first-person narrator of Etgar Keret’s short story “Parallel Universes” begins.…
Wasteland, Wasteland, Wasteland
The binder does not say “mole men.” The mole men are a rumor, a legend. So the old, empinkened blind man with the puckered skin and long, translucent, prehensile whiskers we found in the desert near the Repository is not…
All Or None
From The Kenyon Review, Spring 1951, Vol. XIII, No. 2 Each year, just as the blossoms Fall, and the buds curl from the boughs, I hear from the sky a wondering voice: The brass bird that drowses All year on…
