Sorting the Books, Part 1

It’s that time again. If you read, if you have a weakness for shiny stacks of paperbacks in airports, or the carousel of sale books at the library—they’re only a dollar!—then you know what happens. You stack a few sideways in the space between...

To Drone or Not to Drone

The topic that excited most comment in President Obama’s May 23rd speech is the restrictions on the use of drones to carry out targeted killings. Those both strongly in favor of the use of drones and those strongly against it criticized the speech. The former...

Spring at Mount Auburn Cemetery

In the spring of 1997 I moved to Massachusetts and began graduate studies in studio art, film and photography at Harvard University Extension. A few days after finding an apartment in Cambridge, I began exploring my new “neighbor,” Mount Auburn–a...

Forbidden Fictions

My husband is teaching a class called “Forbidden Fictions” this summer, to a self-selected group of high school almost-seniors. One of his first thoughts: “This might be the only opportunity I ever get to teach Lolita to high school students.”...