by Robin Kirk | Jul 27, 2014 | Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” “(Vampires) are back now, after all — raised from the grave with the voodoo of...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 20, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” “On maps, (the Bone Road) was marked by sailors’ skulls, wide-mouthed monsters, mermaids...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 17, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
Of course, John Yoo has a right to speak in support of torture. Of course, students should be allowed to listen — or not — to his arguments and make up their own minds. But a university should not be honoring a torture architect with an endowed faculty...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 13, 2014 | Robin Kirk
“Nothing that lived or breathed was truly objective — even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.” Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation Related articles Review: Annihilation, Jeff...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 6, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
“I think you ought to try to forget about your leg.” Jane Gardam, The Queen of the Tambourine Related articles Lauren Collins: At home with Jane Gardam. The Stories by Jane Gardam, review Jane Gardam on Her Books, Which Capture a Greater Britain The Queen...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 29, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
The best sentence I read this week: …And in the middle of the circle of children, like the object of some arcane ritual, there hovered a bomb, its downward facing tip seemingly balanced on Adam’s outstretched finger. Miss Peregrine’s School for...
