The models of the world I saw in every classroom as i was growing up were called globes. Each one was a smooth sphere, except for a deep groove about the middle which was supposed to tell us where the equator was and a metal axis that allowed it to spin on its base. And [...]
Before the rising star began to fall again, before the invention of the boy band, before I learned how to read, I followed in my brother’s footsteps as a Michael Jackson fan. Instead of going to our bedrooms, we would sometimes dance around in our footie pajamas to songs like “Thriller.”
“Thriller” is a product inextricably [...]
The Odyssey took place amid one chain of islands; the forty-fourth president of the United States was born on another. In this long poem, which takes place on a third chain of islands, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott examines the power of the sea to connect and divide.
The mixture of comedy and tragedy in Fiddler in the Roof is like something from Shakespeare or Mark Twain, except instead it is utterly unique
Reading in John Cheever about the unlikable yet unshakably familiar
It is ridiculous in the way France is ridiculous, but beautiful in the way France is beautiful.
The best way to describe the unclassifiable writer’s work: Vicious.