Essays
… new agricultural methods, new means of transportation and communication that led to the greatest era of change in … baptism by fire as a scientist speaking to public audiences. Nothing I had done before as a scientist had … people to sign up for virtual citizenship on the TerraMar website in order to provide a collective voice on behalf of …
… colonies of the mainland, colonists in the British West Indies did not support the American insurrectionists when the … Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot , by Denis Donoghue. Yale $26.95 Eliot has been ill handled in recent years, perhaps … elements of history that escape capital’s logic. He points to the importance of these external elements, …
Memoir
… Chicago. The proprietary sauce the restaurant bottled was also tasty and I sometimes shook it straight onto my spoon. … I mostly remember the rich sauces. Around this time it was common for girls at my school to talk about how they ate too … eaters needed to reteach themselves to recognize their bodies’ hunger and saturation signals, or if I made allowances …
… house where I was born. 2 In the spring old people love to come here. They waddle slowly in thick grass and stoop to … watch the small mirror fall between them. 8 What the child points to the mother ignores. Three children are too many … and sing to. 12 One man, middle-aged, carries a silver briefcase and sets up his expensive camera and tripod and in his …
… James and Inez got home from work yesterday, they saw smoke coming out an upstairs window. Their bed was in flames. When … made things happen the way they happened. After her parents died in a car crash, Amber moved in with Inez’s family down … well by Amber, who’d been left by herself when her parents died. Hadn’t even married until age 29. Amber was quiet, …
Art & The Archive
… Safe as Houses Bodies Under Siege in American Art I did not yet know I was … that would or might be, or that require subjectivity, becoming real only in the context of assertion and belief. Her … I had just become pregnant, against all predictive data points, the day I had seen both Bourgeois’s work and the …