“The sea was more important now than the shore.”
Since starting To the Lighthouse I’d been noticing all kinds of references to subjects and objects, which was prompted chiefly […]
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Orientalist Arabesque
Else Lasker-Schüler’s novela The Nights of Tino of Baghdad came to me a couple of weeks ago. It’s free to […]
Burden of Light
“A figure dressed in white, walks along the white line in the middle of the highway. He becomes visible only […]
Peking Man
The best writing sends you down random rabbit holes toward other great writing. Such was the case with a 1940 […]
Lucky’s Speech
It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that […]
Lucky’s Speech
It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that […]
End of the Rainbow
“Between you and me is not only a rocket trajectory, but also a life.” When asked about my thoughts regarding […]
The Insolubility of Milk
I learned about this collection of short stories by Simon Fruelund from his translator K.E. Semmel on Twitter. It’s […]
The Insolubility of Milk
I learned about this collection of short stories by Simon Fruelund from his translator K.E. Semmel on Twitter. It’s […]
