Magnificent Octopus

She says I'm like those large, solitary rocks in southern Patagonia, pieces of world left over after creation, isolated and exposed to e...

Everything that happens inside you during the time you remain seated, silent and motionless, is meditation. [...] Boredom is meditation. The...

What is history? So it is asked, repeatedly and pointedly, in Same Bed Different Dreams (no comma), by Ed Park , a readably maximalist met...

Simon whistled, slowing down to look. "It's that left turn," he said. "It's the worst." "Maybe everyone was...

Why would you want to be with someone if they didn't change your life? She said that, and Julio was there when she said it: that life on...

The camera, apparatus of the desirous gaze, is made up of a shutter released upon a scene which one feels certain can never be fully contain...

'What happened is the least of it. It's a novel, and once you've finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance a...

Woman, closed, or enclosed. Encircling her own body. Pensive, head resting on knee. I argue in favour of this pose because it's more upr...

Well, the important thing's not to grasp the rule but to obey it. Emma Donoghue has written so many books, and I hadn't read any of ...

"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group...

How did silence get such a bad rap? Everybody these days things the world of their own voice, things that by raising that voice, they're...

I was engrossed by what I'd underlined. I read entire pages, struggling to recall the year I'd devoted to this book or that (1958, 1...

Whenever dawn caught him in motion, Gonzalo tended to feel like there was some kind of link between the birth of the light and the very fact...

It's so much easier to know what Hashem wants for a man: not to be a woman. Unlike the blessing women say, in small print, the men's...

I could only see a small patch of sky, the part that was left open between the treetops of the forest around me. The branches seemed like a ...

"In Japan, they say that when you can't sleep, you must be awake in someone else's dream." Who is dreaming about me every ...

But how does a person learn to see herself as nothing when she has already had so much trouble learning to see herself as something in the f...

The other evening I sit with a friend on his balcony having a glass of wine and sharing insights into our hearts and brains and those of our...