Patricia Vigderman’s most recent book is The Real Life of the Parthenon (Ohio State University Press, 2018). She is the author of Possibility: Essays Against Despair (Sarabande, 2013) and The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner (Sarabande, 2007). She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Nonfiction
Winter 2013
The Real Life of the Parthenon
Yes, but what can I say about the Parthenon—that my own ghost met me, the girl of 23, with all her life to come: that; & then, this is more […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 2004
The Task of the Translator
Unlike a work of literature, translation does not find itself in the center of the language forest, but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without […]
Fiction
Spring 2003
Rumi and the Fish
The Qur’an says, “We are all returning.” Whoever brought me here will have to take me home, says Rumi. What I am supposed to be doing I have no idea. […]
Nonfiction
Winter 2003
A Writer’s Harvest
What if I wrote a story and it had in it the word “jickjacking”—as in “jickjacking around,” an activity I first encountered recently in a story in the New Yorker […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1999
Almost No Center
Almost No Memory By Lydia Davis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. 194 pages. $21. Break It Down by Lydia Davis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. 177 […]
Sept/Oct 2018
City of Losses
The Roman cemetery for those not sheltered by the Roman Catholic faith, and therefore ineligible to be buried within Rome’s walls, is idiosyncratically neighbored by an actual pyramid, constructed as […]