A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on July 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. It may seem paradoxical that a porn star could arouse optimism amid an election ...
I’ve never visited the office of this magazine. Oh, sure, the editors have invited me up—they’re very polite—but I’ve declined, because an unseen office is a useful thing. The imagination can tailor ...
Before going up Millstone Hill the crowd waited in a field for darkness to fall. As the long summer day trailed on, they twirled colored ribbons and tossed devil sticks in the air, a jam band played, ...
Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a ...
From All Things Are Too Small, which will be published next month by Metropolitan Books. “All things / are too small,” begins a poem believed to be written by the thirteenth-century Dutch… ...
On a damp, gray afternoon in April, I took my daughter with me to vote in the New York Democratic primary. After a long Tuesday, she was keen to get… ...