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A Review of Eva Figes’s Nelly’s Version

Circular logic, circular reasoning, and cast shadows people Eva Figes’s 1977 novel of an unreliably narrated account of a woman’s descent into dissociative forgetfulness. Told by a woman—presumably middle-aged, though her age…

A Conversation with Sarah Wang

When I was a child, my mother and I used to get into screaming fights over small things I said that weren’t meant to hurt her, but did. “That’s not what I…

On A Ghost Has No Fantasies

Poetry is an act of witness. An act of witnessing the world, language, the self, or in my book, A Ghost Has No Fantasies, history. Once the book was published in January,…