Learning to Speak Silence
It’s easy to imagine a book titled A Beginner’s Guide to Japan opening with a quotation from a Japanese writer, or perhaps with a few lines from a Westerner saying…
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When First Love Could Kill
In 1983 Ronald Reagan was president, Stonewall was ancient history, and AIDS only a rumor of a strange “gay plague.” It was an intoxicating, perilous time to be a teenager…
“wall”
wall to keep the peace we need a wall to fall to our knees before to all things an architecture each body its own boundary the air deliberate so many…
A Moment of Deep Beauty
Something beautiful happened to me recently. Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee. I was standing in Puckett’s in Leiper’s Fork, waiting to pick up my to-go lunch, when…
Books and Rock, Love and Theft
In the closing pages of Novel Sounds: The American Novel in the Age of Rock and Roll, Florence Dore invokes the cultural discussion surrounding Bob Dylan’s 2016 Nobel Prize for…
“Primer”
…by Anders Carlson-Wee. Copyright (c) 2019 by Anders Carlson-Wee. Used with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Carlson-Wee’s work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Ploughshares,…
