It was a muggy, overcast afternoon in June 2010 when Ann Foley’s life unraveled. The day had received off to a pleasing sufficient begin; Ann and her husband, Don, took their two sons, Tim and Alex, for a celebratory lunch at an Indian restaurant not removed from the household house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was […]

For all of its small miracles—large laughs and greater gasps, good performances by Joan Chen and Izaac Wang, sharp dialogue that evokes virtually too effectively the brash posturing of ’00s suburban adolescence—Sean Wang’s 2024 coming-of-age comedy-drama Dìdi left me with the sensation that I had seen this one earlier than. The strong-willed little one, the […]

Sundown over Lake Altus-Lugert / Photograph by Logan / Adobe Inventory Home Life Home lifeis the quickest approach to kill a poet’s insanity and the quickest approach to kill the poet. I learn Claudia my poem about Roberto Bolaño. Claudia seems at me and after a beatshe asks, “Hungry? The salmon filletsare nonetheless within the fridge.”From the deserts […]