Magnificent Octopus

"You can't exist today, much less be a dodgy, widely hated world leader, and not assume that your every action is being documented....

I was feeling torn about what to read next, so I let the cat decide. Rosie says, quite emphatically, paws down: The Passion According to G...

She used to think falling in love was alchemy, that animals had weddings, that coal was a gemstone, that mountains were hollow, that trees h...

— So, the human brain is designed to establish relationships only within small groups, and seeks constantly to reproduce the feeling of bein...

I don't know how I came to have this book. I've had it for some time, and I know I didn't buy it or steal it. Friends deny givin...

I came across an article this morning, posted to Facebook by a Trump supporter, that troubles me for reasons quite beyond the partisan rheto...

A feature film based on Tom McCarthy's mindfuckingly awesome novel . A couple showings this week at Phi Centre . I think I need to see...

Yet at least he had believed in the cars, maybe to excess: how could he not, seeing people poorer than him come in, Negro, Mexican, cracker,...

A sudden mist, a mumble of thunder over the sea, the wind scurrying along the beach with its crop of old bones and litter, was sometimes all...

Bulgarian edition, 1990 This book is funny and messed with my mind in a most wonderful way. I have no idea what to make of it, and I love...

It has been many an age more since the crowds called for a liar. Mine is a lost art, and I shall be grateful to share it with thee." He...

Mujer Saljendo del Psicoanalista , Remedios Varo In Mexico City they somehow wandered into an exhibition of paintings by the beautiful Sp...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to t...

But I get this feeling — It is a feeling that our emotions, while wonderful, are transpiring in a vacuum, and I think it boils down to the...

Today I caught La Biennale de Montréal 2016 on its last day at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal , themed Le Grand Balcon , inspired ...

Most psychic abilities are caused by a simple lack of temporal focus, and the mind of Agnes Nutter was so far adrift in Time that she was co...

An excerpt from All This Can Happen produced by Siobhan Davies Dance , based on Robert Walser's 1917 novella The Walk . (Discovered via...

The sensation of being homesick for a place that is not my home while being right in the middle of it [...] which reminds me of anoth...

Mystery lingered in the air like the scent of a scorched book. As a teenager I tried reading H.P. Lovecraft — my big brother wouldn't sh...

Once, after she'd been introduced to the tape recorder in our apartment and told that you could play back a text or a piece of music, sh...