Magnificent Octopus

Looking up at the heavens she howled and cried until she grew hoarse, but even after her voice had given out, her whole body continued to sh...

There was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by co...

how had some people worked it out made kink a natural part of their lives that was the dream was it to assimilate kink into capitalism along...

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...