Chronicle of Clignancourt
In April 2024, my university’s Palestine Committee, comprising (but not limited to) students, began to organize general assemblies (assemblées générales [...]
Turnpike beauty
I don’t think anyone has ever said the New Jersey Turnpike is beautiful. But this morning it is. An encyclopedia [...]
Daddy done gone
Robert Frost staked out a childhood spot as a swinger of birches. Me, I was a Frankenstein swinger. Long before [...]
Review: “The Vegetarian”
Originally published in 2007 and praised for its layered, Kafkaesque surrealism, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man [...]
Photo essay: Cody rodeo
Life is a dot-to-dot. After graduating from an East Coast university in 1987 where I studied journalism, I found [...]
Horrors of December
You may consider the Christmas season a time of fun, and while most Christmas traditions are sweet, especially the ones [...]
Hallowed hall
Nestled between a cannabis dispensary and a Celtic dive bar in a particularly seedy corner of San Francisco’s culturally diverse [...]
Film: “Heretic”
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau writes “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house [...]
A Christmas makeover
I was never a “bah humbug” kind of person. I can string colored popcorn along with the best, and carol [...]
Taking chances
I remember standing on a corner in Edinburgh handing out flyers for my one-woman show, hoping people would take these [...]
The double life
I’ve started to think more deeply about what identity comprises. For me, it is made up of many things: one’s [...]