Appetites
...lines that trace past atrocities, and to let it all pass through you so you’re ready to ask for more. Appetite binds you to the social and develops a taste...
Seeping Through The Pages
...quantum laws guarantee erasure. These problems with purity laws have been compounded by a number of relatively recent federal policies enacted on Indigenous populations. Take, as one example, the Indian...
Sunday Reading
...pass market tests or bend to the ideologies of wealthy donors." 5 student strikes that show how students can win Georgia opens the first prison charter school "I hope the...
Social discovery vs. sociability
...company, herself, to be sure, but not quite completely herself, since she is only an element in a formally constituted gathering.” It is as if there were a happiness inherent...
Butterfly Effect
...with decidedly less pleasure. "I never pass a night in a Greek monastery without having good cause to regret that I am not an hemipterist," she remarked, apparently sorry that...
Run, Boy, Run
...to pass through it to something much weirder: “It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you / Everything I do / I tell you all the time.” I tell you...
Dance with The Devil
...and 6!”— turning around with one’s partner, moving backward to finish the pass — “in reverse now!”— steps seven through 12. The pattern, with slight variations, is then repeated. Among...
Wound Down Inside
...My Way Up to the Top”), but the music sure doesn’t seem to climax or climb. The album’s climaxes aren’t absent, just muted—infra-ed rather than ultra-ed. For example, “Cruel World”...
Contained selves
...elaborated, linked up to other ones, other people, made to become promiscuous. So thanks to social media you can get the experience of "realness" without having to pass through the...
and that alone is love, that which never becomes something else
...lives in time, and the wandering jew is the man of no woman and lives in eternity. girls! three stages we all pass through. well that’s what i understood. a...
Collateral Damage
...in which the precariousness of freelancing and the constancy of the communication between reader and writer, it squeezes that space in a way that I worry makes the writing less...
See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
Blind Ambition
...me, / Nor pass me with a sigh, / Because the great and blessed light / Is hidden from mind eye; / What though I cannot see the orb --...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
The Island
...imagines something worse: that people are tortured there. It has been going on for a while. Years pass. The rough sea of the crossing makes it feel far. The swells...
Break It Down
...works such sort that the spoil was so great that a man could not well pass through the church. Images are powerful. They can bring people into such a pitch...