Magnificent Octopus

"You know why I love games? For the same reason I love literature. In a game... in a good poem or story? Death is the mother of beauty....

...so the story essentially is in its form, the mode of its construction, the way it's laid out, its structural arrangement, from light ...

This week I cited a passage from a book I was reading (not this book) to a friend, and they commented how dark it was, with the implication ...

In bonsai you often plant the tree off-center in the pot to make space for the divine. This concept is new to me. It makes me reevaluate spa...

There's no continuity and the world I have come from is utterly foreign to me. I haven't heard its music, I haven't seen its pai...

You can't understand something you haven't observed for years. She nodded. You understood some words only hearing it many times. You...

He sighed. Sighing is the worst form of breathing and I try not to do it myself but I admit it's hard. Sighing is something we struggle ...

Yet once they halted in their relentless cataloguing, recording, reporting … wasn't there so much to give them pause? Hadn't one, in...

It gradually dawns on me that I've been denied a destination, caught in a transitional environment, a space between beginning and an end...

(though stillness is another kind of movement; it affects the ground, even if not the wind) The house I grew up in used to be across the str...

"À propos, sometimes when we address a woman," continued the buttoned-up Walter Frommer, "we might gain the impression that s...

The imaginary anthropologist remained with me after I finished university. I would summon her to narrate the simplest interactions when I tr...

It seems easier on balance not to read the news. Some do and some don't, but it's easier not to. When they look at the planet it...

Such that I began to write a book about the real, breathing body of Ravicka, which I couldn't reach by walking toward it and couldn'...

Anticipation, when it occurs, often makes me animated and expansive, as if I am perhaps reviving and honing my senses in preparation for the...

You can't stay married to someone for ever just because they climb out of your attic one afternoon. Or can you? How else do we make thes...

The truth is no one knows when they are making their biggest or most significant decisions. No one understands their own decisions. The woma...