A mix of philosophy, gallows humor, love, and poetry that adds up to beautiful storytelling completely devoid of gimmicks and clichés.

Answers to the questions that have long plagued us. Can ferrets feel envy? Are weasels xenophobic? Is casual sex good for voles?

With their artistic freedom limited, filmmaker Jafar Panahi and artist Ai Weiwei have both taken to testing the boundaries of their censorship.

What I’ve done is made up a language that I write in. It’s a kind of patois of working class speech, poet speech, intellectual patter, and whatever sticks. It’s a swift first-thought, best-thought language.

A mix of philosophy, gallows humor, love, and poetry that adds up to beautiful storytelling completely devoid of gimmicks and clichés.

Hour three: My head hurts. I feel like I have been translating. I have stopped tweeting.

Imagine Duchamp’s The Large Glass if the bachelors and bride had transcended their respective glass panels, and were living happily ever after in Philly. I don’t know if I’d travel to Philly to see that.

While I hope that in the sequel the characters devote their lives to some kind of fight for social justice, this story itself, told by a woman, about women, is refreshing.

What I’ve done is made up a language that I write in. It’s a kind of patois of working class speech, poet speech, intellectual patter, and whatever sticks. It’s a swift first-thought, best-thought language.

When I finish a project that I was completely invested in, I’m pretty emptied out. It’s kind of like post-coital melancholy.

I derive particular satisfaction from delving, in language, into my native Polish core. Having been an exile of many years, this has a particular relevance and poignancy.

I actually think this is a highly existential book. For example, I think the ending of the Kardashians section is completely a meditation on death.

With their artistic freedom limited, filmmaker Jafar Panahi and artist Ai Weiwei have both taken to testing the boundaries of their censorship.

While shoveling scoops of Zen Cheddar into brown paper bags, my boss decried Orville Redenbacher and the other scions of big popcorn. It was easy to empathize with the precarious position of my employer.

Top Gun didn’t win the 1987 People’s Choice Award for its accurate representation of the fragility of human existence. The opposite, actually.

Since the latest crisis in Iraq began, the twin evils of ceaseless sectarian retrenchment and unaccountable governance have been cast in stark relief. Three new books help us make sense of the past eleven years of Iraqi history.

Answers to the questions that have long plagued us. Can ferrets feel envy? Are weasels xenophobic? Is casual sex good for voles?

It is a quiet kind of oppression to have the world constantly demand an explanation for your complexity.

You’ll never look at Shakespeare the same again. Viva Il Duce!

The horrors on the unknown side of the half-known life have a way of lurking in the corners, not satisfied remaining hidden.