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More Right
MY AUNT LOU told me once that it is easier for our people to believe in magic than it is for others. As soon as she said it, I knew Continue reading
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Women on the Road: Rewriting Travel in Poetry and Photographs
For a lot of its history, the “road trip” has conjured predominantly white, straight, masculine images (see literature from Homer to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Jack Kerouac), but of course, that’s Continue reading
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‘The Metamorphosis’ Transforms with This Charming Translation
After years of Richard Dawkins-like grumpiness, I finally revisited Kafka’s The Metamorphosis through Susan Bernofsky’s 2014 translation and discovered it as a whole new creature: sweet, charming, curious, and terrifyingly realistic. Continue reading
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A Moment with Wheatgrass
This is an excerpt from Regenesis by George Monbiot. While I was researching this chapter, the doorbell rang. Deliveries are usually an annoying distraction. But when I saw what the man Continue reading
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Reading in the Dark
PICTURE ME: seven years old, curled shell-like around a book, oblivious to anything beyond the borders of the page. For as long as I can remember, I have been unable to resist Continue reading