Noteworthy: On <i>Selma</i>
As I’m sure you remember, yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The
domestication of memory that comes with an official holiday is sometimes
startling. Certain communities boil a life down to
The Pacific North Wet
Tonight I am thinking about the endless sticky heat of Chicago summers. The best
part of the day, back then, was the moment it finally relented, and you could
breathe again. Late in
All the Morning Birds
In my kitchen there are mottled clouds
on the ceiling, puddles of light
on the floor. New York City never really
gets dark & I try to find comfort
in that we’re
A Good Deed is a Naughty Word
In November, the Chinese State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio,
Film, and Television issued an official statement banning public wordplay – a
gesture to which the western world has responded with puns blazing. Rightly
Stephen Colbert: A Requiem
On December 18th, the world lost a great performer. Stephen Colbert, the
notorious pundit turned pistachio salesman, threw off the surly bonds of earth
and etched his name among the stars. As the