Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina, which won the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, is a rebuke of the romanticised ideals of Tahiti and its golden sands.
De Gregorio interrogates the classic missing person mystery and finds a deeper mystery hidden within – that of missing identity,
He turns into the hallway, walks its length, then grabs the gold knob on the storage room door. Locked. He walks back to the men’s restroom. Also locked. He knocks.
The day was beautiful. Perhaps it was a good day to die for the right reasons.
All day you are outside, walking, alone. The businesses, save for a few, are dark and shuttered, the streets empty.
I knocked at every registered address on the island that ever voted Democrat. And with it, experienced the culture of Galveston like accidentally swallowing the Atlantic ocean instead of a ...
My goal is to reclaim what was lost.
Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a painting or TV show. Rather, ...
Photo by Eric and Mary Ellen.
So the teaching associate, we called him “Teach,” but we meant no disrespect by that, it’s just that the name sort of fit because he’s ...
Above all, my father was benevolent; a man of the people, and of all living creatures.
We tend to think of guilt as having a straight-forward relationship with wrong-doing. We are taught that if you do something wrong, you will feel guilty and if you haven’t ...
“I don’t know why you wanted to meet here of all places.”
She said it in a voice of perfect exasperation that was all at once disheartening and tenderly familiar ...
Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse.
In his mind Harold prepared a speech. If Maggie was going to fire him for stealing food, well, OK, it might’ve happened but he’d never gone overboard, and he supposed ...
I was sixteen and mesmerized by the graffiti – framed by tunnels, bridges, and walls of industrial buildings. It seemed the only view on an Amtrak train from Springfield, Mass ...
In the 22nd century, humanity has scorched the earth. Attempts to undo the catastrophic results of global warming have proved futile, and a new kind of “Noah’s Arc” has been ...
Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the diameter of a barrel hoop, ...
The uncertainty at the core of these stories seems endless. The only thing that we can take for granted is that nothing can be taken for granted.
Paul pulled his sedan over to the curb in front of the house. The sedan’s battered engine rattled ominously as Paul shifted into reverse. Paul, used to the auditory threat ...
The Wikipedia tour guide spiel
It would be my time at the Beauty Pageant metropolis that summer. We start at the majestic Marlborough Blenheim Hotel at Nineteen Hundred Pacific Avenue and ...