Readings

A portrait of the author
Where Are All These Journalists Going to Get a Sense of Self from Now?

Maybe I like being defined by my work! Did you ever think of THAT???

A rendering of Anna Kashfi looks directly at the viewer. She wears a green shirt.
Illegal Bride

Days after Anna Kashfi wed the actor Marlon Brando, doubts about her purported Indian heritage surfaced, destroying her Hollywood career and branding her a liar. The truth was more complicated than anyone knew.

A portrait of the author
A Requiem for Pitchfork

There’s a difference between a critic and a fan, but the line between them is receding from view.

The authors beside the cover of the book
'She is a Witness to the Course of History': An Interview with Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon

The authors of The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle on creation stories, narrating suppressed accounts, and exposing subjectivity. 

A woman with stairs leading to a portal in her mind.
The Year in Grief

Drinking with my sister, and after she was gone.

A woman with stairs leading to a portal in her mind.
The Year in Practice Walks

Relearning to walk—and, more importantly, to see.

An image of a woman clutching her hands to her chest. Around her float many eyes, and a staircase leads to a door in her mind.
The Year in Researching Intimacy

What we learn from a scientific intimacy is more than just another way of looking at the term “intimacy” itself but to look away from that obscure, meaningless construct of intimacy as merely being close to one another.