grand hotel abyss

This article dates back 18 years, but the kicker seems as important as ever. "Being a reporter," I wrote, "doesn't mean y...

In mid-July, five weeks after the author David Markson died, his books began to show up on the carts at the Strand Book Store for a buck api...

Memo to the Washington insiders who have been shying away from Card Check (a.k.a. the Employee Free Choice Act—the bill that would make it p...

The clock says to get moving but I can't. I screw my delicate mousetrap mouth to one side and show my brass stare. Not for nothing I cal...

Sherma watches her father. “Rafael,” her mother says. He holds up a hand. He doesn’t have to talk. He’s tinkering with a wing, so intent he ...

Freshie looks in the mirror. Oh God, he says. Old man says: What’s the matter. I got a hair, Freshie says. Everyone’s got hair. A really lon...

I'm in Guangzhou, China right now and, because of the 'great firewall of China,' I can't respond to any blog posts. But I ap...

Something’s different in the alley. Something missing. Something new. Emma peers out the window. Her eyes puzzle pattern from the pavement. ...

We must be careful not to overstate the case. Let us not forget that in this situation it must be noted: nothing could be further from the t...

September 11th is more than the fifth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City. Its resonance goes beyond s...

"Communication is fatal to a relationship," I say. She squints. "You got to admit, the truth can be really bad—sometimes....

My mother touched the knife blade. The rabbi was in the corner by the crib, muttering. And far away, my father hovered by the TV. There are ...

My father always talked about the mosque at Al Vitah. We would visit it next year -- next year, always next year. And then he was old and wa...

It is the air of atrocity An event as ordinary As a president A plume of smoke, visible at a distance, In which people burn. --from Of Being...

The Paradise Post would have had a field day. Evicted From Eden! heavenly host pushes primeval pair from Paradise; celestial court says pil...

A centuries old text may not seem like the best tool for present-day political analysis. But when I cracked the covers of The Law of War and...