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Di Brandt does the apocalyptic tone so well and in such tiny space. Diamond rivers, uranium valleys, petroleum oceans.           from Dog days in Maribor / Anti (electric) ghazals Night and day, season after season, the predatory universe exercises its tender … Continue reading →

What we carry with us is what sees us through It occurs to me only now that perhaps that curious business of our time-reckoning system, as well as many other apparently irrational things we did, were done in part to … Continue reading →

The Survivors acted with courage and determination. We should do no less. It is time to commit to a process of reconciliation. By establishing a new and respectful relationship, we restore what must be restored, repair what must be repaired, … Continue reading →

Judith Merril “Project Nursemaid” The psychologist muses about the case before him. But this girl with her tremulous smile and her frightened eyes and her unweathered skin — this girl had not yet realized even that it was a human … Continue reading →

I find myself at odds with At Odds with AIDS by Alexander García Düttmann (translated by Peter Gilgen and Conrad Scott-Curtis). Although he uses the moves of deconstructive criticism he falls short in pushing the analysis. This is especially true … Continue reading →

Judith Martin in Common Curtesy in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson recognizes the uses to which etiquette is sometimes put. This is the sort of thing that gives etiquette a bad name. It is a … Continue reading →

As befitting an event worthy of folklore this piece of reporting has picked up variants in the retelling (so much so that Gene Weingarten wrote a piece for the Washington Post correcting erroneous claims [Gene Weingarten: Setting the record straight … Continue reading →