Truth, Tyranny, and Avenues of Escape The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth Ken Krimstein Bloomsbury Publishing September 25, 2018 240 pages, paperback Those wishing to know more about the pivotal twentieth-century philosopher Hannah Arendt but who may be a…
In Idiophone, Amy Fusselman’s fourth book of nonfiction, performances of The Nutcracker morph into magicians performing magic tricks which transform into the performative acts of being a mother and being mothered. It’s a slim book comprised of one book-length essay and yet it’s jam-packed…
Memoirs about illness and overcoming illness are so popular that they have become a genre unto themselves. The reasons for this are clear. Many, if not most, people have either experienced a serious illness or know someone who has. Therefore, there is a broad…
Bruised Hearts On the Day Before Something Happened Nothing much happened. August morning on the Parker River Refuge. Shorebirds working the salt pannes. Tree swallows staging for the journey south. Harrier hunting low over the marsh. The last osprey of summer. My first least…
Has to Go The emergency room doctor clamped down on his right wrist to steel his trembling hand. I shifted my gaze from the confluence of foot and hand to her; she flatly shook her head, a rare, bewildering emptiness. Was this a call…
Venous Lake It all began with a little black spot on my lower lip. “You should get that looked at,” said the woman at the Aveda store, handing me the rhubarb lipstick I had picked out to cover it. As she stared at my…
Fort Myers Beach, Florida I walked along the plastic white boardwalk. My feet were sizzling, and I could hear the boards rubbing together. It sounded like someone was twisting a disposable water bottle. I look down at the water, waves crashing up against the…