gifts
When Vietnamese refugees settled in Southern California they found its culture toxic to something they had always taken for granted, their family life. It’s a…
Typography in Motion
More here.
The Text of Revolutions
graemebooks: Hannah Arendt on a German commemorative stamp from 2006. “In recent times, when revolution has become one of the most common occurrences in the…
The Art Of Fiction: On Writing And Revenge
mkarmstr: [Thomas LeClair] Have you spent a good part of your writing life getting even? [William Gass] Yes… yes. Getting even is one great reason for writing.…
Kafka in Translation
A Message from the Emperor trans. Donna Freed An Imperial Message trans. Willa and Edwin Muir The Emperor—so they say—has sent a message, directly from his death…
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION by Charlie Kaufman (From the Being John Malkovich script book.) They asked me to write an introduction to this screenplay. I told them I…
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
After the lunch conference I run into my cousin Nell Lovell on the steps of the library—where I go occasionally to read liberal and conservative…
Oxford Classics Marion Faber translation: When we are young, we revere and revile without benefit of the art of the nuance, life’s greatest prize; and…
Walter Benjamin, “Experience” (1913)
In our struggle for responsibility, we fight against someone who is masked. The mask of the adult is called “experience.” It is expressionless, impenetrable, and…