Last week saw the announcement of the National Book Awards annual “5 under 35” list. Seemingly establishing a new precedent, all […]
Read moreEchoes of Echoes: Whalebones, Nicotine, Etc.
I’m not a smoker. It’s bad for me, but I also have plenty of other vices that are bad for me. […]
Read moreThe Compass Rose: Skipping in Reykjavik
We road our bicycles around like bandits under the streetlights of central Reykjavik. The Scot had 24 plastic bottles of Redbull […]
Read moreFrom Austen to Zola: “Reading Lolita in Tehran” in England
For the past eight years, my life has consisted of stone-faced immigration officers and service as a teabag mule. At the age of […]
Read moreEchoes of Echoes: The Milky Way in Glass Boxes
Currently at the Guggenheim Museum is an exhibit by James Turrell, an artist who works with light, color and space. That’s […]
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