June 13, 2025
Cry Room
Along the rows of people at the Detroit Film Theatre, tendrils of perfume and coconut oil and stale cigarette smoke curl up from the ends of hair, from the fibers […]
June 13, 2025
With Sans Soleil
The Kenyon Review · “With Sans Soleil” by Bertrand Schafer translated by Katie Shireen Assef and Claire Foster It begins with an astonishing “image of happiness.” Three children on a […]
June 13, 2025
Stations of Flânerie
The Kenyon Review · “Stations of Flânerie” by Irene Bakola Entering the Galerie Vivienne from the rue des Petits-Champs, the nineteenth-century stroller would have felt the city grow aware of […]
June 13, 2025
The Faint Aroma of Performing Seals
The Kenyon Review · “The Faint Aroma of Performing Seals” written by Torrence Paquette and read by Chris Roberti They were eighty miles north of the city, seven hours into […]
June 13, 2025
from Eclipse
The Kenyon Review · from “Eclipse” by Wah-Ming Chang I. My father lives on the top floor of a former movie theater that sits underneath the Manhattan Bridge. Today the […]
June 13, 2025
TV Buddha
They moved in on a Saturday in August, with their boxes and their bookshelves and their coffee table made of glass. It was hot, the special kind of Hongdae heat […]
June 13, 2025
Color, Sound, Darkness
The Kenyon Review · “Color, Sound, Darkness” by Les Bohem Rene’s first marriage had been to an asshole. A rock video director who preached a certain brand of Orthodox Judaism […]
June 13, 2025
i must listen to the birds
June 13, 2025
But I Drift. I Was in Fact Discussing the Silver
The Kenyon Review · “But I Drift” by Carl Landauer James Ivory’s The Remains of the Day (1993) after Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989)Who is he talking […]
June 13, 2025
The Kind of Guy You Always Used to Hate
The Kenyon Review · “The Kind of Guy You Always Used to Hate” by Carl Landauer Nunnally Johnson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) after Sloan Wilson’s The […]
June 13, 2025
How Do They Call Thee?
The Kenyon Review · "How Do They Call Thee" by Carl Landauer Sam Wood’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) after Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)I remember […]
June 13, 2025
What Can One Know Even of the People One Lives with Every Day?
The Kenyon Review · “What Can One Know Even of the People One Lives with Every Day?” by Carl Landauer Marleen Gorris’s Mrs. Dalloway (1997) after Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway […]