Monday, November 09, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
The Wasted Vigil

This is an extraordinarily powerful book. It’s about Afghanistan. Its power has two sources: cruelty and language. The cruelty is appalling; the language is strange and compelling. (At first, because of its strangeness, I thought it was a translation, but it's not; Aslam is a Pakistani raised in London.) It is, of necessity, an indictment of Islam, but also of the national belief systems of Russia and America. At its core, I suppose, it’s an indictment of humanity. And truly harrowing. Read it.
Friday, October 09, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Monday, October 05, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
House of Days

This is the House of Days. It stands beside San Francisco Bay.
On its other side is a camera. Each hour of every day it takes a picture in which is a small slice of the North Bay and a very large slice of sky.
On its right side is a control panel. You look through a glass pane at the most recent mosaic of pictures, through which you can scroll. Each row is a day. If you find one you like, you can enlarge it.
Machine art.




























