Catalytic Narrative

Extreme heat, then cold, then coffee, then a/c, having something to do with salt, I think my body can't calibrate properly. On a hybrid ...

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood My rating: 5 of 5 stars By misrerable happenstance, I have found myself reading end-of-life-as-we-know-...

With a start, I realized that I should have been up in Toronto where all the real subversion was happening last night. Too late. I've be...

None of us can know our own personal deficits. They are blind spots; lacunae , to borrow the title from a recent Barbara Kingsolver novel I ...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 5 of 5 stars Rarely do I make the mistake to see a good book first in movie form; degenerated tha...

I've been in and out of my apartment lately, and the magazines pile up. Today is recycling day, and road resurfacing day, and so there a...

I hear on NPR that there's this new book about being wrong. It's about how we're all somehow programmed to find long explana...