“The maître d’ showed us to our table, on the right-hand side of a single room that held about a dozen tables, all filled but ours. The clientele was smart-looking and professional. Carrie…

“I posted recently that I think sometimes being born—just being born! Not even writing about it!—is opening a window and crawling through it into some strange place better viewed behind glass, too loud,…

“The book begins in Sydney, Australia at the end of the lives of her mother and father. Tayar has temporarily returned from abroad to attend to the needs of her elders; her brother,…

“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth/And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;/Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth/of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things/You have not dreamed of—wheeled and…

“A hundred years of cautionary tales have taught us apparently very little. We continue to build devices that could bring about the end of our civilization, our species, and indeed our planet itself.…

“The first two paragraphs of the story at HR News provide a daunting overview: ‘On March 27, 2026, Stanislav Krapivnik — a former US Army officer, supply chain executive, and military-political analyst now based in Russia — gave…

“I was, let’s say, witness to a number of amazing experiences during these months of recovery, of realignment, of rebirth. There were escapades of utterly insane, reckless high speed chases through farmers’ fields;…

“As a versifier, I’m aware that rime does not pay; as a recovering Presbyterian, my firmest belief is in the illusion of free will; as an essayist, I know it’s not the eloquence…

“Father M thought I was too focused on the past, that I was looking for dirt on McQuaid. But to say that McQuaid was a dogmatic, conservative, narrow-minded and highly intelligent operator would…

“Stallings makes a claim that has grown on me though it is necessarily figurative rather than physical. She depicts, with much documentation from the poetry of Cavafy forward, that the Elgin Marbles and…