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What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker Basic Books, March 2018 384 pages / Amazon   Science is the purely empirical pursuit…

‘Vaginismus’, now termed ‘Genito-Pelvic Pain or Penetration Disorder’, is the involuntary contraction of the pelvic floor muscles. The tight muscle contractions makes coitus, and gynaecological examinations, difficult or impossible. The cause…

(Phish at Chaifetz Arena 2019-06-11) TOUCHHEADS It’s July 1995 and “[t]he spirit of the Grateful Dead is at stake . . . .” This existential threat wasn’t drugs. Nor was…

A Review of Hulu’s Catch-22 and Prognostications for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Once upon a time, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was, according to Vanity Fair, “one of the…

In the months following Abbey’s overdose, I wrote about her endlessly. I made lists about things she loved (frozen yogurt, Pusheen, sunglasses), noted specific details I was afraid that I…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Riverhead Books, July 2016 208 pages / Amazon   Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond has been called both a short story collection and a novel but it’s neither.…

I am the wound that does not heal, the small solar stone: strike me, and the world will go up in flames. Had I not stolen that book, I most…

* * * Bird Rhythms I sat, twenty minutes, watching a flock of birds fly in patterns. What could we understand if there were not the birds’ songs to guide…

Image Credit: Dev Murphy   My mother called me last week to tell me she had dreamed of her sister Christy’s trip to the hospital before it happened. Minor illness.…

Jocelyn Ho Jocelyn Ho met me at a coffee shop in the Pico-Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles. She ordered herself a cookie and a tea, then sat down across from…

prior atom by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen ma press, May 2019 136 pgs / Lulu.com   “Where technology leads, Art follows.” -Kenneth Goldsmith The broad categories of digital poetry and electronic writing…

The starlings come at 11:00. They leave. They return. They leave. Every departure is as complete as the one before. An escape from certain death. And every return—I don’t know…

[Image: “Pink Island, White Waves,” by Milton Avery] Dense underpinnings waffle beneath your back, shirt gone scrunched and reckless, no big deal you think, but it bothers you. The little…