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It may take a whole company of people, plus an audience, to birth a play, but the playwright who feels herself to be precarious—a benevolent…
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It was sitting on a Florida beach some years ago, reading Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea, that I learned the quartzite sand all around me had once…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor  The meaning of a memorial: an acknowledgment, a rite of mourning, a prompt to conversation, a reminder to history.
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor Memorial is liquidated, and other threats to our endangered memories. How history is sheltered like a little flame by people…
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The import of animals for the human psyche was recently reaffirmed when my twenty-year-old son dramatically announced: “Basically at this point my life…
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1928: ”I believe we are at that interesting moment when the prophet becomes the poet and when prophecy becomes the expressive song, the chant of…
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A woman of letters—the phrase suggests simultaneously something stuffy (she is an old-fashioned literary mandarin); something improbable (in Samuel…
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The fact that the food and drink take center stage in as short a narrative as James Joyce’s The Dead might strike a reader as rather odd; and yet…
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I have back in my hands for a third time, in a third form, one of the most important books of my life. The first I’d borrowed. The second I gave away as…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor A Icelandic tradition of giving books at for the holidays, dating to the privations of wartime, builds in the reading part. In…
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One day soon, we won’t need to travel anywhere—or so people like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would like us to think. In announcing his company’s next…
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For some people, the years between when they learn how to read and, say, leave home, consist of reading. To others, that idea is perplexing. I was…
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