Essays

Natalia Goncharova: Life and Art (an Excerpt)

Marina Tsvetaeva and Natalia Goncharova are two of the strongest voices emerging from the Russian cultural tradition of the 20th century.

A Home at the End

On the liminal thresholds that echo our long pilgrimages and our returns.

John le Carré’s Life Beyond The Pigeon Tunnel

David Cromwell, a little like Smiley.

On the Fairy Tales School of English-Language Poetry

Poets reframing, repurposing, revising, and revisioning fairy tales are producing some of the most inventive and dynamic poetry today.

Loosening the Flesh & the Mind: Relic & The Taking of Deborah Logan

Watching horror movies is a kind of mastery. Metaphors become literal, and real horror is supernatural.

Why Learning a New Language is Like an Illicit Love Affair

Those are the languages that will consume you—all of you—as you do everything to make them yours.

Somebody Loves Us All: Finding Beauty in a Filling Station

My father’s car wash, Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Filling Station,” and the somebodies who care for us all.

Genre as Network & Hybridity’s State of Matter : An Utterance About Literary Terminology

Genre is definitionally malleable, in flux, molten, unfixed in time and space, and this creates chaos.

Memory Care: A Personal Essay

When my grandfather was losing his memory, my son was learning to talk. The world offered itself to my toddler in corners and syllables.

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