Magnificent Octopus

The other day Dizzy told me that in a small bookshop in the Czech town of Náchod he found a nice edition of Blake, so let us now imagine tha...

For a moment I forgot what I was doing and where I was going: so it seems to be anytime I experience happiness, it always has to be slightly...

Slavic languages, with the freedom proffered by their declensions, presented an added difficulty for the writer faced with a blank page, for...

Saturday, November 23 I started reading Of Walking on Ice today, Werner Herzog 's journal of his pilgrimage from Munich to Paris, to t...

One spared life might be worth more to the other side than all the blood that stained Red's hands today. A fugitive becomes a queen or a...

It was interesting to consider, said the long-haired boy – Georgeou, as my diagram now told me – that a story might merely be a series of ev...

Seth and his co-workers were born imperialists, and so would pillage the city for tiny, cash-only ramen places or Thai restaurants that had ...

I have always regarded the feet as the most intimate and personal part of our bodies, and not the genitals, not the heart, or even the brain...

On a far-wandering walk a thousand usable thoughts occur to me, while shut in at home, I would lamentably wither and dry up. Walking is f...

Whatever kind of woman you are, even when you're a lot of kinds of women, you're still always just a woman, which is to say you'...

It is written that one meeting is worth ten partings. Yet one parting is of greater consequence than ten meetings. For if lovers keep regula...

I mean, people have actually said to me, "Wow, I guess having cancer so young must have given you a whole new perspective on life?...

The sound of her voice in the empty house reassures and splits her: she's both a woman preparing for lunch and a woman watching a woman ...

A few weeks ago the poster in the metro caught my eye. I had to go see it. Momenta 2019, Biennale de l'image, presented works around the...

I'm reading The Hearing Trumpet , by Leonora Carrington, and for such a slim book it's slow going. It started off riotously funny an...

English teaching at school is, unfortunately, obsessed with what a poet thought, as though that were of any interest to anyone. Rather than ...

This is why tyrants of all stripes, infernal servants, have such deep-seated hatred for the nomads — this is why they persecute the Gypsies ...

And Frankfurt? That great air travel hub, that state within a state? What do you associate that with? Yes, yes, the spitting image of a chip...