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Will some of these children be able to venture into adulthood, become grown-ups in outlook and attitude, able to buy a hat, cross a street. I looked at the girl who could not take...
“Think of being alone and frozen in the crypt, the capsule. Will new technologies allow the brain to function at the level of identity? This is what you may have to confront. The conscious...
Sometimes an advanced copy arrives that makes you want to abandon everything else on your books-to-read stack. Just this weekend I received a galley of Don DeLillo’s Zero K, which is due out in early May. As...
(Photo by Hans Mauerer) Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time. I worship each god, I praise each day splintered down, splintered down and...
“Be it for the defence, or be it for the assertion of a nation’s liberty, I look upon the sword as a sacred weapon. And if, my lord, it has sometimes reddened the shroud...
A few new exciting Spring books recently arrived in the mail, so I thought I’d update you all with the current status of my “To Read and Review” stack. Roberto Arlt, The Seven Madmen (New York...
Everyone is familiar with those hopeful exhumations we finally perform on certain books, movies, or music, and the almost always disappointing results; sometimes the fault lies with the work itself, sometimes with those who...
I’ve been writing about Samantha Hunt’s Mr. Splitfoot this afternoon and thought I’d share what I think is an absolutely fantastic jacket design. This is by Strick & Williams. More of Charlotte Strick’s designs can...
She wore a T shirt of some kind of cocoa toweling and when she leaned back hard against the seat it was a splendid thing to see. Her skirt was gray flannel and it...
