Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The harmonics of the saxophone concentrate around similar frequencies as the human voice. When you play it, the shape and size of your mouth and throat contribute to the resulting tone.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Half of life is spent dealing with details: the numbers, the paperwork, the dozens of discussions upon which any shared activity, professional or private, is based. (The other half of life…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the actor and activist Vinie Burrows died, on December 25, 2023, surrounded by her family, she was ninety-nine. She had lived at least five lives. In the course of nearly…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Like many great recording studios, Flora Recording & Playback, in Portland, Oregon, is unspectacular from the outside. A brick building situated on a moderately busy street in between two residential neighborhoods,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the French director Justine Triet’s first feature, “Age of Panic,” screened in New York—in 2014, the year after its Cannes première—it felt as if the movie might herald a new…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1866, my mother’s great-grandparents Eugene and Mary Robinson Bremond bought a house and property on a hill overlooking the Colorado River, in what’s now downtown Austin, Texas. Other Bremonds and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story According to the author Justin Torres, “backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind.” That explains why his first novel, “We the Animals,” which is told from the shared perspective…
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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A new literary character has logged on. It’s unclear how long she’s been here; her arrival itself went unnoticed. Instead of speaking, she lurks. Her profile picture is the default “girl”…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Four years ago, on the threshold of a critical election year that would decide whether Donald Trump won another term in the White House, I asked a German friend, Constanze Stelzenmüller,…
