I forgot to tell you this. One time, desperate to get out of the apartment and feeling cooped up, I decided to go for a walk through...

When does the representation of a place become more important to the place's definition than the place itself? The images that Cézanne...

We made it all the way to town with the dogs. And to be honest, I was absolutely done with him. I just couldn't take it anymore. The...

Donald Hall said, "At sixteen the poet reads Whitman and Homer and wants to be immortal. Alas, at twenty-four the same poet wants to be...

Curiosity killed the cat. But originally (sixteenth century, Shakespeare, Wikipedia, just go with it), the saying was "Care," meaning...

Adam says: try to praise the mutilated world. Well, you know what? Just this moment my throat is a little dry, from shouting undeserved...

Summer begins on the Monday after graduation, when campus suddenly empties. In the morning, walking across the Quad to my office, the air...

On the first night in Paris with my mother, we ate dinner in the basement of a restaurant called Le Coude Fou in the Marais. She had...