Unrooted: Dangerous Anonymity
On unnamed narrators in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri and Edwidge Danticat.
Month: March 2020
If It Wasn’t For Wayne, It Wouldn’t Be
An analytical look at the career and influence surrounding one of the most iconic names in music.
Perfect Earlobes
She puts on long, droopy earrings and stares back at me in the mirror. Try these, she says, and hands me a pair of danglies. You have perfect ears, she says. Look, she says. Perfect. Look at your earlobe.
Canh Khổ Qua
Vietnam, 1953: the last of the rain/ has settled. a rainbow/ begins to form as i/ go out to grab some/ groceries. the produce/ man smiles and waves/ as i head home./ metal against wood./ burning embers./ boiling broth./ and just like that:/ dinner is served.
The Antihero, as Seen on Reality TV
Like the Greek tragedy of its time, The Bachelor is one of the best modern portrayals of the human condition.
Violence Does Not Constitute Art
I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate
– Rev Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963
I’d heard of the MoMA PS1 long before I moved to Long Island …
On Washing Dishes
It is written that she who does not work shall not eat. Unavoidable as a law of nature, I propose that the inverse is also true; she who eats must wash her dishes. In the course of my (admittedly short) …
Asian Experiences in America
I wanted to compile oral histories from Asian Americans with different experiences of that label and different ideas of what it means.
Notes for a Hypothetical Tragedy
The truth of any good tale is the thing that makes it art. Without truth, art’s power to change the way we see things fails in the hands of the artists and remains, then, merely words on a page.
