The Lark Ascending
There is a familiar moment on any walk of reasonable length. Our sense of time undergoes an almost...
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The Garden of Forking Paths
To Victoria Ocampo In his A History of the World War (page 212), Captain Liddell Hart reports that...
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Contracrostipunctus Achilles has come to visit his friend and jogging companion, the Tortoise, at...
Delta of Venus
Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit,...
But Beautiful
At some time all cities have this feel: in London it’s at five or six on a winter evening....
Silence
IndeterminacyArtists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression “free as a...
On Balance
Tribute It takes ten thousand hours to shine at anything. And if we haven’t spent night after...
Exit West
In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a...
The House of the Spirits
My wife didn’t miss the refinements she had been accustomed to, and the day the shipment of...
El Trio de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
The absurdly prolific Omar Rodríguez-López who has been releasing albums at the rate of almost one...
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens’ All Delighted People 2010 may be Sufjan Stevens’ year. Having been...
