Chester Phillips: Heroes and Consequences
I imagine Andy Williamson standing on the welcome mat of my family’s house at 614 Ravenwood Drive. I see him in the moment before his hand touches the door,… More
Dialogues with Imaginary Partners
Readers should not expect straightforward autobiographical narrative, however, but a work in the symbolist mode, in which the semantic range of words is extended. More
No Standard Way: Five Questions for Susanna Daniel
As for the “End of Men,” I enjoyed the Atlantic piece, but I just can’t buy the idea that as women rise, men fall. More
Serious Men
Ayyan Mani’s thick black hair was combed sideways and parted by a careless broken line, like the borders the British used to draw between two hostile neighbours. More
Keeping Up with the Kids: Five Questions for George Dohrmann
Spending so many years around the players and the parents, it created a different dynamic than the one I typically have with subjects. I was more invested, although it… More
Up Jump the Boogie
Life is never measured / In beats, but beat-downs, / Not line breaks, just breaks. More
Play Their Hearts Out
On a clear and warm Sunday afternoon in September of 1996, a basketball game was played in the gym at Riverside Community College in Southern California. More
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Immediately, “infamy” became American code for “Pearl Harbor,” as well as code for Japanese treachery and deceitfulness—a stab in the back that cried out for retaliation and would never… More
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