ISSUE 20 | SEP 2012

DIFFERENCE

fidelity, faith - extragrammatical links - religious veneration, erotic love, and translation - the geometry of the poem - an anxious way to honor the original - Nabokov’s own system of transliteration - the concerns of a translator

Michael Kinnucan

The Short End of the Stick: Gender Pleasure

This is a joke about penis envy. - the only sexual organ devoted exclusively to pleasure - enthusiastic politicization - Zeus and Hera - thought grasps pleasure most deeply in longing - Daniel Paul Schreber - « the plot whereby my soul was to be murdered and my body used like a strumpet. »

Tobi Haslett

In Search of Edouard

« I went to bed early » - the strangest memoirs ever written - « I look down dead-end streets. » - sundry facts - Levé’s cavalier style - Mandelstam’s ending - « the best day of my life »

Cat Pierro

Different People Are the Same?

comparing DNA - the last two people left on earth - in spite of other mouth-parts - chief among hermeneutic principles - less optimistic - maybe we won’t, but that doesn't mean we can’t

Aron Chang

Casting Light

to befuddle the masses - the common currency of art and design - excess and distortion - « another god with family ties to Saturn » - Tolstoy’s barge