Dispatches from Nicosia: Birds, Cats, and the Cyprus Talks
I am here to research, among other questions, the poet C.P. Cavafy. The entire enterprise bears an imprint of ridiculousness the poet himself might have appreciated.
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Books as Constant Companion: The Millions Interviews Pamela Paul
I threw aside all my life and career goals and set out to do something that I knew I might hate. Something that terrified me. Something that nobody like me would do. It ended up being the best decision I’ve ever made.
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There Is No Moral Symmetry in Real Life: The Millions Interviews Leela Corman
I wanted to talk about the time when women did not have choices in reproduction. The consequences of not having a choice are gruesome.
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The Millions Interview: Bradford Morrow
While evil is obviously universal, various forms of evil portrayed in The Uninnocent do seem to me to be distinctly American. An unstable idealism that sometimes erupts into irrevocable acts of violence or crime does reside in the hearts of many of these characters.
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A Year in Reading: Edie Meidav
Stumble across any list and you know that always there lives a list beyond all lists: the list of books which you, reader, are unable to explore until you find some Kryptonlike strength over your own autobiographical impediment.
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Daughter of California
Pitch dirt onto a parent’s dead body and in that second understand that bits of dirt just became as much part of the parent as any other bit you might hold onto: a snapshot, a clock with bent hands, shoes still bearing the imprint of feet, ties scented with stale aspiration.
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