Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
Witnesses
One hundred thousand people were murdered by the Nazis at Ponary, 10km southwest of Vilnius where my grandmother was born. Today is gray, drizzling, but not enough for drops […]
Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome
Winter 2006
When the Young Geneticist Was Asked, “Aren’t You Worried about the Implications of Your Work?” with a Toss of Her Sun-Streaked Hair, She Declared, “No, Not at All. I Can’t Wait to Fuck a Clone”
O flawed species,who has fashioned spears from saplings,notched points of flint, slicedthe muscular, coral flesh of salmon,pounded tapa from the inner bark of the mulberry tree. Large brains balanced on […]