I imagine this concrete structure next to a row of outdoor dining tables in Tsim Sha Tsui to be a time machine, covered with fauna and largely forgotten.
Read MoreAmr had seen the news from Tunisia, where the dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali’s twenty-one-year rule had just been swept away by protests, and read the Facebook calls for action in Egypt.
Read MoreLarry Levis had wanted to die. He’d killed himself, his close friend and fellow poet David St. John told my high school English class years ago during an after-hours reading in Fresno, California, not literally but by habituating himself to so many mundanely self-destructive habits.
Read MoreIt is the civilized human’s sustained tendency toward irrational belief that Conan Doyle sets up as the central issue of Hound of the Baskervilles.
Read MoreA bathroom as white as the elephant it cradles. I,
Airavata – heaven’s milk-toothed cloud,
I was in my early twenties when my aunt handed me a VHS cassette with my mother’s name written on the label. My aunt and mom worked at a school for hearing-impaired children in Oslo, Norway, and at some point in the 1980s the school introduced video technology
Read MoreIt had been so long since I last pulled out the Snakes & Ladders set that the cardboard box had warped. I’d put it away in that attic ages ago, and if the weather hadn’t been the way it was, and I hadn’t needed distraction, it never would’ve occurred to me to take it out.
Read MoreWhen medievalists Eileen Joy and Nicola Masciandaro grew exasperated with the academic publishing industry, they started their own alternative, punctum books.
Read MoreA star sends its light through space, and this passes through the strong gravitational field of the sun. The field bends the light, so the position of the star changes.
Read MoreI was in an unending dialogue with readers who were caviling, praising, booing, correcting. My brain had never been so occupied so insistently by so many different subjects and in so public a way for so long.
Read MoreThat year I spent the best two months of the dry season on one of the estates—in fact, on the principal cattle estate—of a famous meat-extract manufacturing company.
Read MoreMy first mobile phone was a silver-colored model with rubber keys. When my sister Hanan pressed the phone into my hand, neither of us knew that it would open the gates of the world to me.
Read MoreThe “sensitive guy” should be understood through the lens of what pop psychologists call emotional manipulation, and his proliferation is the result of two things: the rise of feminism and the rise of immaterial labor.
Read MorePhotograph by omye. by Fernando Sdrigotti My God, with what a light heart (comparatively speaking) did I write the concluding lines!—though it may be not so much with a light heart, as with a measure of self-confidence and unquenchable hope. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler Kim Caless invited me to a saloon she’s hosting at the…
Read MoreIf Lena Dunham undresses on TV and no one is around to watch her, does she still make an impact? On a recent episode of Girls, Hannah Horvath poses nude, George-Costanza style, in a makeshift photo-studio in the back of a coffee shop.
Read MorePeter Harrison Asleep, John Singer Sargent, 1905 From Chapter 2: There entered a young fellow of about twenty-five. Beaming with health and irreproachably dressed to a degree which dazzled the eye with its immaculateness of linen and gorgeousness of jewellery, he was a figure calculated to excite envy. “Good morning, Volkov!”cried Oblomov. “And good morning to you,”…
Read MoreIn a popular Woody Allen joke about a moose, Allen, playing a schlemiel from New York City, recalls how he went hunting and shot an animal in Upstate New York. After shooting the moose, he brought it back to the city.
Read MoreWhat seems to me chiefly remarkable in the popular conception of a Poet is its unlikeness to the truth. Misconception in this case has been flattered, I fear, by the poets themselves.
Read MoreAgain a little further away, in the small, unincorporated community of Joshua Tree, Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Museum is another alternative desert site. This one was born, however, not so much out of a pseudo-spiritual longing, but from the desire of an artist for an environment to realise his vision.
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