Curiosity > Contempt.

This is the finest example of critical, cultural and linguistic wizardry I can identify. Reproduced here, in full, from the New Yorker webs...

No trates de vivir contra la vida. No destruyas lo que el movimiento te ofrece para estar tranquilo. Roberto Bolaño

“What I want to say, querido, is hunger is not romantic to the hungry. What I want to say is fear is not thrilling if you’re the one a...

"Today at work I was wiping shit down and I was just wistful as fuck. And I was like, damn, I really want to tell Devika about how...

I don't know how to explain what it is to walk around silent, deserted Delhi streets after midnight with four girls and four ...

Howard Jacobson: “Remember how superior art is to belief.” Czeslaw Milosz: “Art is not a sufficient substitute for the problem of lea...

“Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he's never visited. You ...

A challenge so exact and exacting, I might have posed it to myself. Anonymous June 24, 2012 9:17 AM Globalness, noble? Ha. That...

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the mo...

The latest gem from Arundhati Roy: " The first step towards re-imagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilati...