At certain times of day, around summer, there are peculiar, soft bursts of sunlight that beam through the leaves of fig and plane trees on the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Its rays fall gently over th…
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Photo by Alberto Cabello from Vitoria Gasteiz - Bob Dylan, CC BY 2.0. Throughout his sixty-year-plus career, Bob Dylan has combined an “incredible skill with a wildness of spirit,” as magician Penn J…
I picked up Carlos Fonseca’s Colonel Lágrimas, translated by Megan McDowell (Restless Books, 2016), because I was immediately struck by the conflict in the title: “colonel tears.”…
Still from Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Lilies Films / Arte / Hold Up Films, 2019) What to make of the arrival of an LGBT period drama from the time of Louis XV into the twenty-first cent…
Giannina Braschi, sitting in the Flying Carpet Armchair (1972) by Ettore Sottsass at R&Company in New York City in 2019. The avant-garde writings of Giannina Braschi are popping up i…