Posts by: Zachariah Wells

Sometimes You Need a Record of Your Life: on Lisa Robertson

“I want to be believed. But I also want to write through spaces that are utterly delusional.” —Lisa Robertson I was reading Lisa Robertson’s latest long poem, Cinema of the…

To Follow This Dark River: Echoes of Joseph Conrad in David Mitchell

“I think of it in terms of when I walk into a cathedral I don’t really understand the mechanics of the force that is keeping tons and tons of stone…