An Internet play inspired by the eponymous book (which was neither written nor published), consisting of three dialogues on the limits and imperfections of language.
Snail-mail Google and a card-catalog Web: a fin-de-siècle Belgian information scientist’s proto-Internet.
“Turnbull’s Blue—Antwerp Blue—Berlin Blue—Prussiate of Iron”: reading the world’s first artificial color.
“A story in which I explain”: a collage and prose poem.
The primal violence and utopian trill of the rolled r, the most rrresilient of locutions.
An ecstatic bestiary. A prequel to 2012. Shot by the temple police. Performed for the video camera. A film.
Among the silvery breeders, swollen frat boys, and other endangered species of Baltimore’s Preakness Stakes.
A letter from the Demilitarized Zone, where South Korea is imagining its way out of perpetual war.
The story of the cowboy oilmen who branded the Gulf and the Bedouin who followed in their footsteps.
Mapping the Japanese forest where the spirits of suicides linger, silence reigns, and compasses fail.
Stardom is martyrdom: India arrives in the American imagination.
