Reporting
… a beatdown to Wall Street. Best of all, we’ve got a company known for their prescience forecasting their own …
… then, “Ungrateful, where are you hiding?” (The shark, too, complains of his prey, Why aren’t they more forthcoming?) … all around he whispers, “This is the world. You will die. Sorry, nipper,” . . . I caught him afterward asleep. … the worlds I made, this world alone I did not destroy, but died instead, Who am I, clear and dark over the sea, dark …
… when someone finally had to say, “So what’s it mean to come from here anyway?” A gang of crows made a gaudy noise … grace enough to bless a cell they can’t venture from or to comprehend the random visitor who tarries to feed a burning …
Notes to Self
… way of understanding the world,” she says. “It’s an all-encompassing experience. I learned things about the humanities … there. I learned how to be a person of the world when I studied engraving.” In 2013, nearly burned out, Malhotra … archive, this was a way of building that archive. The website allows people to write stories about ancient objects …
Essays
… resolutions. I grant that there are problems and shortcomings, but they do not ruffle my devotion at all. And this … facts and concepts—the slow contents of the books I studied. This was the pay-off, this was how a powerful mind … in part through my absorption in the writing, but also by drawing the energies of one obsession temporarily …
… with the mushy green spittle and the acrid stink that had accompanied the ostrich catcher’s habit for the day and night … of Aden. Deserts were the birthplaces of prophets but also the playgrounds of jinns and shape-shifters. He had … alight with brightly colored straw mats. Jama lay down obediently but couldn’t stop his eyes from roving around. “Do …