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Epiphany, Fall 2009 Issue Now Available
for purchase online and at purveyors of discerning periodicals near you. Die not for lack of what is found in poems, difficult as it may be to get the news from them. Featuring H.V. Chao’s short story...
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Peeters’ Pachyderme
From my recent review of Frédérik Peeters’ Pachyderme: Let’s see… in the breathless opening to this 90 page graphic novel we get a traffic jam due to a wounded elephant; a blind pigkeeper; a gray...
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Slowly, Through Select Testimonies
to its advent–for example, here and here–a book long merely dream or rumor is becoming printed fact: “Then English and French and mere Spanish will disappear from the globe. The world will be Tlön.” ~...
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Postapocalyptic Postmen (non-Brin)
I’m awfully late with this (it’s been live since the year turned, more or less, but I’ve only just gotten ’round to publicizing), but better late than never: a bit of science fiction in translation, an...
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Everywhere the surrealists
left their visiting cards: ‘Parents! Tell your children your dreams.’ The Bureau of Surrealist Inquiries was opened at 15 rue de Grenelle, Paris, in October 1924. ‘The Bureau of Surrealist Inquiries is...
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Health is the last
emergent post-Christian religion. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the former abortionist who is now a leader of the pro-life movement, remarks that modern man seeks “somatic immortality” instead of God. This...
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In another passage of his lecture
bearing on the dialectic of the foreign and the domestic, Schleiermacher argues that the ideal translator is not one who has mastered the foreign language so fully that that he is completely at home in...
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When the brilliant twenty-year-old chemist
Humphry Davy discovered the potency of nitrous oxide, “laughing gas,” at the recently founded Pneumatic Institution in Bristol in April 1799, he inhaled the new mind-altering substance himself, and...
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Moving
Paul B. has done something splendiferous and brain-splitting. It is called edwardgauvin.com, and features placeholder copy from his magic tattoo. As a result, this blog will be discontinued: it will...
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