Memories of Uncle Bob
Last week we buried Uncle Bob. Despite the fact that the bar was ridiculously low, he was nevertheless my favorite […]
Last week we buried Uncle Bob. Despite the fact that the bar was ridiculously low, he was nevertheless my favorite […]
I recently read three short books, all fiction about Mexico: the novel Signs Preceding the End of the World by […]
Any time an apology is issued, we need to ask why. Just who exactly is she apologizing to? Can you […]
Any time an apology is issued, we need to ask why. Just who exactly is she apologizing to? Can you […]
Back when I collected personalities the way other kids collected trophies–dissociative identity disorder, for those in the know–there were two […]
Black Sun Lit published my essay about and translation of Edmond Jabès on Paul Celan. They are an exquisite literary journal who […]
“Beauty is just as vapid as its distinctions.” The recent translation of Anne Garréta’s Sphinx, translated by Emma Ramadan and […]
Imagine being a historian of nineteenth-century Paris and your academic publisher demanding to see the original city before accepting your […]
Resistances: The Problem of Fascism Walter Benjamin on fascism George Bataille on fascism Emmanuel Lévinas on fascism Jan Patočka on […]
From October 1995 to February 1996 I lived in Poland. I was conducting research on representations of the Holocaust, both […]