Picture by Demianastur / Adobe Inventory The surplus of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Residing (Milkweed, 2025), and on the foreground: motherhood, debt, forest fires, and a speaker who’s deep down like everybody “obsessive about dreaming / up the long run, with hell, with all / that spares us.” All through Moffett’s third […]

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 […]

Images courtesy of Lisa Carver. My cousin Lorrie invited me on a ten-day retreat in Peru the place we’d partake in historical ceremonies involving the Dwelling Dying Drug ayahuasca and— “Don’t inform me something extra,” I interrupted. “The reply is sure!” I by no means watch the trailer earlier than going to the film. I […]