Both my Rosemary and I in our little dúplex in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver have this fear of becoming…
In our last trip to Buenos Aires a few months ago my friend Fernando Velazco who works at the Teatro Colón told me that he had a…
It is frustrating not to be a poet or a good writer. This photograph (even though I…
My grandmother, born in the 19th century, was influenced by the shock of Darwin’s theory. Whenever I said…
One of the loveliest books I have ever read is Jerome Charyn’s 1986 Metropolis — New York as Myth…
And you left with the interpreter, noting two straggly kings parked outside the bedroom in simple camp chairs. Your…
Patrick Silver left the baby in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel. The baby, who was forty-four, sat in the upholstered chair, with his…
My brother drove me to the Brooklyn morgue since I needed to look at dead bodies for…
What happens when an a NY City ex-Police Commissioner becomes President of the United States and walks into the…