Prose

Octogenarian desire, Scarlatti keyboards, and a Rothko in maroon: how can a young man resist?

How Don Mcleans American Pie lyrics have resurrected themselves in todays radical times.

A researcher has perhaps no difficulty choosing between her work and her relationship during a world crisis.

The concept of making it boils down to where youre at.

A college student develops acute hearing from an experimental depression treatment which puts her on a crash course with her school administration, and eventually with technological noise itself. - photo credit: Alex Perz

Emotions are simply the clothes that we wear. They are not flesh. On his last day, my father slept, and did not wake up. I heard his lungs fight for air.

The Cézannes of the world bloom late not as a result of some defect in character, or distraction, or lack of ambition, but because the kind of creativity that proceeds through trial and error necessarily takes a long time to come to fruition. (Malcom Gladwell, The New Yorker, October 13, 2008)

Perhaps it is true that the idea of this world as a great mountain that reaches above the clouds, pinched from subterranean plates of earth and rock, can sustain itself on symbolism alone.