Alberto Manguel is the award-winning author of hundreds of works, most recently (in English) Fabulous Monsters, Packing My Library: An Elegyand Ten Digressions, Curiosity and All Men Are Liars. He lives in New York. Read more of his work at manguel.com.
SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU
Dispatches
Danielle Hubbard
The muse hunt
"The following resume / arrived by fax: One ex-military / man, 52, applying / for duty ..."
Dispatches
David M. Wallace
Red Flags
The maple leaf no longer feels like a symbol of national pride.
Dispatches
Mazzy Sleep
Heart Medicine
"You have bruises / There was time / You spent trying to / Heal them. / As in, time wasted."