The Empathy of Gina Berriault
Outside an old hotel in the Swiss Alps, an elderly writer fearing the end of his
literary career watches two figures climb the steepest side of a distant
mountain. Miles away, the climbers
Literature
Noteworthy: Cutting through Static
It happens when I hear the Scottish accent of an old man. Or my hairdresser’s
soft, unhurried tone. A gentle cadence like waves, rising and falling, sending
tingles over my skin.All
The Worlds Numbers Built
A young Michael Clune sits in front of his family’s television long after the
jumbled noise of the VCR tape has stopped, absorbed in a primordial void of
static, waiting for something.
Cormac McCarthy at Christmas
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
–W.B. Yeats
I have at times found myself at a loss to explain to another person why I love
McCarthy’s writing. It
The Sensational Lives of Clergymen
Beginning in the nineteenth century, the English-speaking world saw the rebirth
of a strange type of clergyman: the priest-scholar interested in the
otherworldly. While men of the cloth have long been part of