Books
In the Beginning
Photograph by J.D. Daniels. I don’t remember learning to read. There is a story ...
Paul Bowles in Tangier
From left, Paul Bowles and Frederic Tuten in Tangiers in the eighties. Photograp...
On Bei Dao’s Visual Art
Ink dot painting by Bei Dao, from the series “The Moment.” Photograph courtesy o...
Kurt Vonnegut’s House Is Not Haunted
Kurt Vonnegut’s house. Photograph by Sophie Kemp. In my earliest childhood memor...
New Movies, Fall 2023
Janet Planet (2023). All photos courtesy of New York Film Festival. Annie Baker’...
Teetering Canaries
Illustration by Na Kim. Translated by Imogen Taylor One stifling hot night in ea...
An Illegible Quartet and Choreographic Research
Dietmar Rabich, “Kreta (GR), Rethymno, Fortezza, Theater,” Wikimedia Commons, CC...
The Art of the Libretto: A Conversation with Thulani Davis
Courtesy of Thulani Davis. X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X is opening at the ...
Dirty Brown Subaru Outback
Screenshot from “2011 Subaru Outlack AWD (Walkthrough).” My mom liked to call th...
Recognizing the Stranger
Isabella Hammad. Photograph by Alice Zoo. I wrote this lecture in August 2023 an...
Remembering Louise Glück, 1943–2023
Louise Glück’s studio in Vermont. Photograph by Louise Glück. Courtesy of Richar...
The Future of Ghosts
Image of a ghost, produced by double exposure, 1899. Courtesy of the National Ar...
