We all sensed we were in it, but didn’t know 
who would fund this long a study, what the premise
behind it could be.  

Writers like Shirley Jackson leave out whatever unspeakable crime the man commits. It is a silence which—for the reader attuned to it—becomes a glass-shattering scream.

  The tension between trees and female disobedience is biblical. After succumbing to the snake’s suggestion and partaking of an apple from a tree, Eve gets some bad news: her body will bring her shame and pain. She is not meant to reach in…

Finding a letter in a burrito.

Finding a letter in a burrito.I was somewhat delirious when I found the letter H in my burrito. I had two weeks to finish translating a difficult novel, and I was teaching at two different universities, one so far away it took three trains and two ho…