… whole liberal wing of the party on the spot—testing their commitment to change. I was one of about twenty or so people … volunteers who had been missing for months, whose bodies had only recently been discovered. They had last been … over the head or back or shoulders with a wooden club. It’s also terrifying. Then an order came and the clubbing …
… time — they appear futile. Why should anyone whose aim is communication impose upon himself conditions which the … lies in wait for everyone who undertakes, whether in morals or art, to follow the cult of perfection: sterility. The … the quays, even in the common ditch of the dead who have died poor. He looked for poetry there, and before the mirror …
Photography
… and Cocktail Umbrellas. 2017. To the extent that Ekberg composes portraits of performance art, many of them are also small miracles of timing—freezing the moment between up … has been met with some dismissiveness, depending on the audience—though contempt is a little more surprising. …
… in the past fifteen hundred years, economics had made no comparable progress; and he attributed it chiefly to a … of economists with the practical problems of individuals, in the hope that a new approach may prove useful. I … out of existence. Farm organizations will ask for subsidies; inefficient producers will seek embargoes on the …
Fiction
… poisoner) had lived. Of all the tours of Buenos Aires the company offered, the murder tour was the most popular. It … at first but got boring after a while. He had studied the ten crimes of the tour in detail so that he could … police record. A murderer of children and small animals. A murderer who didn’t know how to read or add, who …
… Without a Common Denominator One Times One. By E. E. Cummings. Henry … quad-rivium, and enjoying his family. (On the former two points, see the same author’s delightful … humorously mordant “Mexico Is a Foreign Country: Five Studies in Naturalism.” (By contrast, “Variations: Ode to Fear” …