… health, and who was until 1935 executive to the National Committee on Maternal Health, acted as attorney-in-fact for … Ellis in the negotiations for the second publication of “Studies in the Psychology of Sex” in this country. The … make them in an uneven way. But they were made at intervals of years, so may well be uneven. . . . My method of …
Poetry
Avignon, Early Summer A woman downwind from Nagasaki now dying is forced to decide what form might hold her when she’s made into flame then scattered as ash. A field, perhaps. Of sakura. With bright white blossoms blooming in the dark. We got married in …
Criticism
… My brother lives in Georgia and rarely returns home. My dad died during the Obama administration, and I don’t have … before we arrived, developers had plans for an ambitious complex of neighborhoods. The plans were so ambitious that … in Africa—where the family patriarch converses with the locals in Swahili—and summer at their beachfront home in the …
… it was quickly dismantling. Yet facets of dying remain welcome. There is the peculiar silence. No one can understand … booth in an old quiz show. Through the glass the audience can express commiseration, but words simply do not … the grief of others makes sure—mimicking sorrow, gesturing false hope behind the glass plate—that you perform. “I washed …
… with varying ratios of Semitic ancestry. These mongrels complicated the separation of tribes. During its 12-year … paternity has never been satisfactorily documented. Rumors also abounded that Reinhard Heydrich, the dreaded chief of … to wander about the train and cadge sandwiches and other diet supplements from kindly avuncular travelers, and when I …
… This being part of a letter, written in the spring of 1626 by Sir Robert Carey (newly made Earl of Monmouth) and … left stranded in a tidal pool. Carey, a courtier, a soldier, and a gambling man, was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth. … for. For, my good friend Ferdinando, though I trusted you completely, as ever, still I could scarcely have imagined …