The Flavor of Our Language
Aging, Is My Own Face
Ashes
Happy Father’s Day
The Manifesto Handbook
Julian Hanna has read and pored over manifestos for decades. His new book on the subject, The Manifesto Handbook: 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form, will be published by Zero Books in January 2020. From the island of Madeira, …
Kimonos
I wanted to leave.
At fourteen, I had decided that I was tired of blending in with the clean-cut white Mormons in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I decided the perfect place to go was Nairobi, Kenya. I had voraciously read …
Breakfast with Hatti
There was a rip on the red vinyl of the booth at the restaurant. It appeared to swell like a scar as the foam viscera pushed its way out, in spite of an impotent piece of duct tape that barely …
Dream DNA: Personal Mythology and the Narrative Elements of Taemong
While taemong remain part of a vibrant culture of dreaming in Korea, some suggest that the tradition is diminishing in importance. What follows draws from five years of ethnographic research (collecting taemong) and practice (interview, transcription, illumination, analysis) in the …
Big Windows
Big Windows, by Lauren Moseley. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018. $15.95, 72 pages.
Animals—a jackal, a bear, a panther, a bobcat, a coyote—stalk through the poems in Lauren Moseley’s remarkable, unsettling recent collection Big Windows (Carnegie Mellon University Press, …