This piece was first published in July 2014.
Almost forty years after its publication, Paul Theroux’s narrative of a train
trip from Europe to Japan, The Great Railway Bazaar, is still bandied
This piece was originally published last June.
A writer and professor of medical humanities at UC Berkeley, Marilyn Chandler
McEntyre [http://marilynmcentyre.com/] has authored numerous works—including
Caring for Words in a
When short forms are everywhere, from Facebook to Twitter, everyone fancies
themselves a minor poet. Social media has provided the form, and now the content
of poetry skews towards a celebration of the
“Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything
would amount to knowing whom I ‘haunt.’ I must admit that this last word is
misleading, tending
Seven pairs of eyes looked back at me as I settled into the chair at the head of
the table. I was a young teacher, barely twenty-four, and this was my first
class
