FictionReviewChristopher Tayler enjoys short pieces from an American originalPaul Klee famously thought of drawing as "taking a line for a walk". Lydia Davis, an American short-story writer, or writer of short texts ambiguously situated between fiction, jeux d'esprit, prose poetry and philosophy, seems to have a similar approach to what she does. Sometimes she takes a word for a walk, as in "Examples of Remember", which reads: Remember that thou art but dust.
Early days … Noa Maxwell with his parents and brother Jo (bottom left) at the ashram in Poona, India, in 1978 before the sect moved to Oregon.View image in fullscreenEarly days … Noa Maxwell with his parents and brother Jo (bottom left) at the ashram in Poona, India, in 1978 before the sect moved to Oregon.Television & radioGrowing up in the Wild Wild Country cult: ‘You heard people having sex all the time, like baboons’In 1976, Noa Maxwell’s family joined Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s ‘free love’ commune, now the subject of a Netflix series.
A letter to ...FamilyThe letter you always wanted to writeIt's been about 12 weeks since I saw the awful texts that confirmed my suspicions that you were being unfaithful. For two years I had been questioning whether you loved me as I felt so unloved – so much so that I occasionally asked if you were having an affair. And I felt you were avoiding me. You assured me every time that you did love me and were not having an affair, which made me feel happy that things were fine again, for a while.
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