Gregory is an eighty-two-year-old Russian Jewish man who works across the aisle from me at a nonprofit community center in Palo Alto. I’d always been curious about why he was…
The Toronto-based Trampoline Hall Lecture series (where people lecture on subjects outside their area of expertise) is on tour. The series’ founder, Sheila Heti, has got a book out with…
I meant to say there is no cure except to live the hell out of our lives, to take it apart, to put it back together, to dig it all up, and then fill the hole.
The Space Age drifted all around me: Major Matt Mason toys in various heroic poses on the basement floor, plastic red-and-blue rockets ascending and landing, the interstellar playing out…
There is a feeling of complicity in his [Dlugos’s] best poems in that he makes the reader love the burnished, tumultuous late nights and affection for those around him.
John Sayles, who just blew our minds with a novel that is both physically and emotionally heavy, directed an indie film called Amigo, which is his 17th film. The movie…
Three years ago this spring I gave myself one Sunday afternoon off from self-pity to indulge in some window-shopping. A movie rental place among the sporadic cush boutiques of a…
First let’s all take a moment to appreciate the steepest roller coaster in the world. Now then, let’s talk about space! Oh my gosh, look at this comet hit the…