Literary Graves
“You know what was written on Keats’ grave? ‘Here lies one whose fame was writ in water.’” Bob Dylan mulls this over. “Where’s he buried?” Dylan is with Allen Ginsberg, visiting Jack Kerouac’s grave in Massachusetts. Ginsberg asks what graves the singer has seen. A pause. “Victor
Soumission by Houellebecq: Satire or Smut?
France has a history of producing bitterly controversial writers: Baudelaire the Sapphic Pornographer, Celine the traitorous Anti-Semite, and Derrida the Obfuscator. Today, that great tradition is embodied in slight, ailing frame of Michel Houellebecq, who is quite possibly the most controversial wr
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A Suggestion
We can only imagine that the child went softly, aaaaaaafound some comfort in those flowers he is gripping, hardened now to fossils, while his fingers are dust. If there is something to add, supply it here, for even beneath the earth, one day there will be nothing left to hold onto. &nb
Not a Fairytale
There are lots of things I could tell you about Tom but the only one that really matters is that he jumped off the bridge when he was twelve. Because he wasn’t scared, you see. He’s never been scared of anything, not as long as I’ve known him, which is just about forever. Things that […
‘Sciamachy’ by John Fuller
I Whoever from the stinking village calls One quick accusing word, Or stiffens, circling like a bird About the empty air, or who has heard Some wall beneath a finger hiss, he falls. This knowledge is not good. We must invent The sparkling education Of the Dog, condone the bun Crammed in its gob: our
Renaissance Porn
In 1527 Pietro Aretino published I Modi, a collection of sixteen sexually explicit engravings originally by Marcantonio Raimondi. The Italian Renaissance had just created the world’s first hard-core porn magazine. The engravings in I Modi are remarkable on account of their sheer openness. The subj
Attack of the Drones: The Ethics of Modern Warfare
In the good old days, going to war meant travelling to where the war was. Pack your bags, don’t forget your toothbrush, say goodbye. For about five hundred US Air Force pilots, that inconvenience no longer exists. Their war is sedentary, carried out in rooms at Offutt Air Force Base on the line be
The Grandness
The Sunday Gazette January 17th 1995 PAGE 1, REASONS TO TRAVEL LATE AT NIGHT You like being in public when the public aren’t in. A rare certainty in this life is that when other people come in, they will close the accordion you had opened of yourself shut again. Train times to avoid: lunchtime, po
