death

The Memory Ruins: On Nathalie Handal’s Volo

Handal collapses the borders between surrealism and realism, the cinematic and the ordinary. And the use of repetition amplifies her global beats.

The Bank of Paradise

Truths yet to be known, that: If the dead can indeed wake up, there’s only…

Combination of Cecilia Vicuña’s “Amaranta” (1972) and photo by Kirill Sharkovski
Unfading [Story]

Their rage so loud she stopped hearing it. Telephone wires ran through her body and tugged her in different directions the way exile does. The way the world falls and the sea begs when love limps. The way numbers climb the wind like death tolls when oppressors are free.

excerpt from Hot with the Bad Things

Small death.      Small shame Photograph of a small room emptied      …

Almost Animal

  I heard they no longer sew eyelids of the dead shut. When I pressed…