Medha Singh on J.M. Coetzee

One day I will be nothing but what I've left behind: a roomful of poetry books boxed for yard sale or library donation...

Nothing prevents us from using uchrony to look to the future...

Awareness joins inner and outer, near and far. It can also be referred to as compassion...

It was an “infernal machine” comprised of a clock, a pistol trigger mechanism, moving cogs and bars of a soft, chemical-smelling material...

The neuroscientist vows not to ruin his new beginnings as he re-enters academic life...

Tintoretto needed no more than the outlines of the figures—no more than their idea—for them to come to life...

Inside the great mirroring eye of my Heavenly Lake I regard the wide ocean of my sky reaching out along the glacial massifs and crystal heights of me...

Patterns assert themselves on the crust of our curves...

We will only take as many fish as can fit into this basket. We must only use what the tree gives us...

Gun militarism doesn’t exist in opposition to gun populism, but alongside it, constituting a racial-double standard...

I was a buoyant cocoon she carried in the jellyfish bell...

Geographically vulnerable as most harbors are, Chrysopolis was better suited to commerce than war. This is why nothing remains of its Roman or Byzantine origins...

She dwarfed all other remaining cities of the Roman Empire as well as former western Roman imperial and cross-frontier territories, and all but a few eastern cities...

The post-1968 era inaugurated the unraveling of Japanese anthropology’s transwar consensus about its goals to produce objective, field-based research that uncovered universal laws of social development and diffusion...

Is the title limited to hard-news reporters? Are bloggers journalists? Are producers at media corporations and TV programs journalists?

A striking example is the distinction that one family made between using digital technology as a producer/creator and using it merely as a consumer; the parents sought to ensure that their children fall into the first group, with the aim of one day becoming a leader in the new...

Letters are always self-involved, but Berryman’s are often insufferably self-obsessed, even if they are meant to be letters of condolence...

It’s a common enough scenario. A vegetarian has been invited to a friend’s place for dinner. The host forgets that the guest is a vegetarian, and places a pork chop in front of her. What is she to do?

And so on, as before, in a roundabout way, using more words to say nothing than necessary...