The cannon bewitches the body…the school compels the soul.”
-Ambiguous Adventure

Some ten years ago, while my mother and I lived in Dakar, Senegal in an overlarge white concrete building between the grandiose villa of a corrupt politician with three wives and a squatter settlement covered in weeds and rocks, I first came across a copy of [...]

By Bob Borek and Nick Hoy
I’ve lately been rereading some of my favorite short stories, from a collection by Richard Yates called “Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.” In “No Pain Whatsoever,” Myra visits her husband Harry, who has been quarantined in a tuberculosis ward for more than four years. Normally, Myra takes the bus to visit [...]