May 19, 2026
Body as Rebellion
I. Every session begins with lighting tests. Tentative shutter clicks as you shift how shadow drapes the nose, the right ear, a corner. More shutter clicks. (Is the battery charged?) […]
May 19, 2026
The Near Abyss
The Kenyon Review · “The Near Abyss” by Patrick Autreaux translated by Tobias Ryan and read by Patrick Harrison It was chance that led me back to Pascal and his […]
May 19, 2026
I Molt with You
The Kenyon Review · “I Molt with You” by Emily Mathis I. The month before my stepfather, Vaughn, goes into a skilled nursing facility for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), my […]
May 19, 2026
Armilla
The Kenyon Review · “Armilla” by Gus Wray Where does the house end? Is the line between the house and the home the bed and the refrigerator and the television? […]
May 19, 2026
To listen with the ears of the heart
The Kenyon Review · “To listen with the ears of the heart” by Alexi Zanghi We took the vaporetto, the first trip to the abbey, and walked across the terrace […]
February 23, 2026
Check Out
Built on the bustling tourism of Americans seeking to become someone else for a time, Myrtle Beach has little use for a skinny fifteen-year-old kid uninterested in consumerism. On the […]
February 23, 2026
Trying to Explain Genocide to a Six-Year-Old
“Nobody steals in real life.” I’m not sure if it’s a statement or a question from my son—or whether he expects me to confirm he’s safe in the world. He […]
January 15, 2026
The Disparate Heart
The Kenyon Review · “The Disparate Heart” by Jacque Gorelick Read “The Disparate Heart” a companion piece to author Jacque Gorelick’s MAP OF A HEART: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, LOSS, […]
December 15, 2025
Birdsong in Maples
Birdsong taps you on the shoulder this morning, as if the warbler serenading daylight has snuck into your kitchen to distract you from pouring your son’s cereal. The call is […]
November 7, 2025
My Terminator
At the end of my first semester of counseling school, my professor asked us to think about termination. She meant: the end of our time together in class and our […]
November 7, 2025
The Ringer
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. — Shakespeare, Macbeth Spielberg’s Jaws is about boys, dead boys and living boys, boys who are actual boys but also boys who are men and […]
November 6, 2025
Orchids
The Kenyon Review · “Orchids” by Susan Li Once, my mother asked me to wire $279 to a strange man on the internet. It was August, mosquito season, and four […]