July 22, 2025
Disease, Disposition
For hours, my mother talks to the dolls. She’s lined the three of them up on the couch in the living room, the way a child might before lecturing inanimate […]
July 22, 2025
On the Verge of the Forest Park
All day, up from a massive caldera, we drove through a vale of pastureland draped like a green sheet between ridged peaks, bare rock piercing and tensing the fabric. Highest […]
July 22, 2025
Only the Dead Have Been to Mafra
To this day passing by Mafra upsets me, though Mafra itself is blameless, Mafra and that entire surrounding area, where I wandered as a cadet during those few doomed months […]
July 22, 2025
On Hunger
One thing. One thing. One thing: Tell me there is A meadow, afterward. — Lucie Brock-Broido, “A Meadow” You can starve to death by living on rabbit meat alone — or the […]
June 13, 2025
the nest of nothing
Light is history in flamesLet us forget about the light.Can anyone definethe darkness that defines the star?We need to know about the darkness wheredreams go and where we are. — June […]
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 […]
May 20, 2025
“If This Were Fiction”: Tyrese L. Coleman’s “How to Mourn”
From the first sentences, Tyrese L. Coleman’s essay “How to Mourn” turns a somersault, becomes a Möbius strip, an Escher: “If you read my fiction, you will find a character […]
March 19, 2025
That Kind of Girl
The Kenyon Review · “That Kind of Girl” by Elaine van der Geld If she were to set up a projector reel inside your head, select the roll from New […]
March 19, 2025
Surugede
In my head there’s a roadmap to a life of pure American bliss. Clear signals. A suburban neighborhood with a loping road. A beautiful woman smiling louchely in a crowded […]