The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.
Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.
It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.
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The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.
Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.
It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.
“Bird,” he cried, “I come on behalf of the emperor. Your voice is all anyone speaks of.”
She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.
Finding myself in a sport that always felt connected to my father's rage and regret.
On the shared origins of two seemingly incongruent disciplines and the language we use to explain our place in the universe.
The author of All You Can Ever Know on family secrets, nature versus nurture, and Kristi Yamaguchi.
Despite decades of contributions to psychedelic science, women have long been marginalized in the field. That's starting to change.
The author of Kens on the power of satire, rituals of rejection, and imagining Christian Slater.
I don’t want to test my children for genetic illness to subvert their autonomy, but to allow them to fully exert it. And though I have the means, I can't quite find the will.