Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
Category: death
Review: “Amy Foster” and the Fate of Refugee Knowledge
What does a 1901 short story have to teach us about the border wall? Plenty.
What’s Past is Present: How an 1820 Law Still Haunts Us
A Google search for statistics on police brutality bears not-so-shocking resemblance to an 1820 Georgia law concerning racial violence.
When a Book Finds You at Just the Right Time
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn found me when I was 11, the same age as the main character when the book begins. A Little Paris Bookshop found me just after a breakup. To the Lighthouse found me a few weeks ago— I guess I’ll figure out what brought her to me in the retrospective. But…
A Portrait of the Craft as an Essay
I started writing a collection of essays about what I was sure would be a very short recap of my grandmother’s life. Her immigration story was the only thing that seemed interesting to me about her; her forty years at JCPenny would not make for good writing material, I thought. And I already knew most…
Discovering My Family History
I didn’t want to write about this, because it’s so personal. But I think it’s important to let people see stuff like this, so here we are. My Creative Writing major (which my brother insists will condemn me to the barista life) requires a twenty- to twenty-five-page piece of creative writing. I chose to write…
