The Divided Self
It is the summer of 2011, and I am at an outdoor café in Psiri with my cousin Eleni, graffiti…
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Max’s Half of the Photo
This is my grandfather Max. In 1948, Dora, my freshly divorced grandmother cut his body out of their wedding portrait…
Technology, Time and Sabbath
In evangelical circles, Philip Yancey is known for The Jesus I Never Knew, What’s So Amazing About Grace? and Prayer:…
My Meditation Will Not Bring World Peace.
Three years ago, feeling the aftereffects of a series of deaths in the family, I paid $500 for a week-long…
The Ghosts of My City.
I wrote yesterday about Anaïs Nin and Rupert Pole: she, the last great voice of interwar expat Paris; he, my…
Anaïs Nin & Husband
On her Facebook feed, R.Y. just posted a link to a new collection of correspondence between Henry Miller and Anaïs…
Robert Paul Wolff’s “Beyond Tolerance.”
I have a personal investment in tolerance: I belong to several groups and organizations which, in other parts of the…
Poems for Just a Few Children
I read two short books this morning. One is very short: Frank J. Anderson’s Birds on My Mind. Anderson, the…
Harryette Mullen’s Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
Harryette Mullen, a poet and UCLA English professor, does a lot of walking from her home in what I’m guessing…
Used Books and the Chain of Transmission.
Usually, it’s nothing more than an old receipt, used as a bookmark and left between pages after the book left…
Left Write & Centaur 