Their fascinating, morbid jewelry was beautiful and repulsive, but I couldn’t muster anything to say. I simply stood and ...

There is no one quite like Jeff VanderMeer. With his naturalist’s eye, philosopher’s heart, and extreme imagination, the man can set a singular saturated mood–one that positively vibrates with life, ...

Krankenhaus is German for “hospital.” Literally, sick house. You can’t look at the hospital environment from the eyes of someone who’s healthy. The less sick you are, the less the environment makes ...

I open the door to an unmarked structure in the art village. A dance beat suctions me into a sweaty crowd. The eyes of the moving bodies peek out from between pillowy parkas and winter hats. Inside ...

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If you feel like you’re outgrowing your life (and really, who among us hasn’t at some point?), never fear, your body will ...

Recently diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, a woman processes life and death through space and ...

There’s a spider in the room; what do you do? I move carefully and don’t scare it. I get a glass (I’ve had to use a wide-mouth canning jar a couple of times) and then I put the glass down quickly and ...

THE FIRST DIRT I tasted was a fistful of siltstone dust outside the house where I was born in the Mojave Desert. My father was rarely around. When she could, my mother took long walks around the ...