David Biespiel is a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and painter. The author of over twelve books, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and the recipient…
Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience…
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…
Almost two decades ago, while backpacking alone in Costa Rica, I fell in love with…
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…