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A sangre fríaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.
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The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard GlissantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of…
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The South Bronx did not existThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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〖 A killed darling. 〗 Spoiler alert: it did.
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Marx and the art of natural winemakingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The grapes are tiny, burnt to a crisp. It’s day two of the harvest, in late August — freakishly early in a year of drought and heat waves. What is…
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The room I am inThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Tight pants. Fashionable coats. Music. Defiant looks. On the last men & women who passed through the Bulgarian gulag.
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Glossomania-maniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.
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A recipe for word vomitThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals.
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Of Anders & KreuzwendedichThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.
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Longing + debtThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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〖 A killed darling 〗 And — I failed. I replaced this paragraph.
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Dinosaurs + dolphinsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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〖 A killed darling 〗 A joke format that endured for precisely one week.
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A can-can dancer performs a Christmas treeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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〖 A killed darling 〗 Being alone in a new city over the holidays was wonderful and, as it happened, not to be repeated.
