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It is the duty of the creator of any book app to assume that whatever sense of immersion we enjoy in a conventional book can be improved upon. More things to become immersed in, the logic goes, means more immersion, which means a better...

Channel, brook, stream—call it a river
that flows past the hospital
in different shades and seasons of blue,

Above me in the night
My unknown neighbors walk 
Across a creaking floor

Finding out the truth about beekeeping and locally made honey.

As soon as I began to ask questions, I realized how much work had gone into no longer asking them, into silences or re-​routings, into omissions, not-​noticings—​into a carefully pruned rhetoric of absence. When I began to realize I wanted...

John, you asked me what it was like to be black,
to come from a place where being black mattered.

The Faroese are a storytelling people, with ancestries tracing back to Nordic and Irish lines and a history etched in bloody Icelandic sagas. For centuries, fishing has been a pillar of the Faroese livelihood and economy.

In the halls of Pigalle, juxtaposition is not intimacy. 
Moulin Rouge Moulin Rouge Moulin
Red—Louise the Glutton spread high in her kick, 

In Herero dress, there is an emphasis on construction; the sensuality is powerfully present below.