Herring-Gray Skies
How slippery the work of the Danish writer Dorthe Nors is, how it sideswipes and gleams. When I consider her four books translated into English—two story...
On Melancholy
What I thought of as a pleasant lingeringon things,tender,without the flurried rush of hope,Freud called “melancholia”: “a state in which a person grievesfor a loss she...
What Does Israel Fear from This ‘Terrorist’?
In 1978 I returned to Ramallah from my legal studies in London brimming with ideas about the importance of the rule of law and the possibilities...
Landscapes of the Imagination
Lisa Yuskavage was twenty-one in the spring of 1984 when her parents drove her up from Philadelphia for her admissions interview at the Yale School of...
Grand Illusion
Persuading people to like something is a trade. Persuading them to change their minds and like something else is a skill. But inducing them to believe...
Father & Son
They took him to beyond Davidstown,Stopped the car on a side road untilThere was no sign of anyone. And then,To get his chords working again,He was...
Inheriting the Legacy of Japanese Imperialism
Take a kaleidoscope, peer inside its lens and turn the dial: the jeweled-mosaic pattern within deforms and reforms anew. Asako Serizawa mirrored her debut short story...
7 Novels About Only Children
The world of children, aburst with animal energy, strikes only children like me as strange and perhaps a bit vulgar. So we observe. Our lack of...
8 Bookish Nonprofits and Organizations to Donate to on Giving Tuesday
After scoping out the best deals on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, it’s time to celebrate Giving Tuesday. First started in 2012, Giving...
A Brief History of Vampires & Werewolves in Ireland & the United Kingdom (and Some of Europe)
Earlier this fall, a Twitter user posted a map of Europe, broken down by whether vampires, werewolves, or both were the prominent monster in each country....
