Evie Hemphill

"None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work...

A few weeks after Richard’s wife died, he offered me a pair of her shoes. He pulled a box out of a crumpled Macy’s bag and handed it t...

I've Emily on the brain this weekend: Abraham to kill him/ Was distinctly told - Isaac was an Urchin - Abraham was old - Not a hesitatio...

What follows is something I wrote a while ago but was reminded of this week. It gets at one of the main issues that led me to distrust the...

I think these word cloud things are pretty cool. Just tried it out on a couple pages of one of my essays ...

Are we losing our contemplative minds by being online? That’s the central, disconcerting question that author Nicholas Carr asks and then an...

This question was one of many good ones asked by author Francine Prose during her address at the 3rd International Humanities Medal event a...