Papers by Christina MacSweeney
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Jul 2, 2023
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Index on Censorship, Feb 1, 2008
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The Third PersonFundamental Considerations on SomethingThe Shrubs of the Terrestrial SphereThe Fu... more The Third PersonFundamental Considerations on SomethingThe Shrubs of the Terrestrial SphereThe Future of ArtEpilogue
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Index on Censorship, 2009
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New England Review, 2014
There’s a man down there, in the courtyard of the building, who’s rhythmically hitting a chisel w... more There’s a man down there, in the courtyard of the building, who’s rhythmically hitting a chisel with a mallet. He’s been at it for several hours. At eight in the morning, I went down to ask him what he was doing and, like someone stating the obvious, he said: Working. I didn’t bother to ask the next question—the one that was really worrying me—and went back inside. I’d been standing under the shower for a few minutes before I realized that the surface of the shared courtyard we cross every day to go out into the street wouldn’t be there when I next opened the door of our apartment. I haven’t yet felt like looking out into the courtyard. I wonder how we’ll manage to get out of here—if perhaps the man will improvise a bridge with wooden planks or if he’ll at least reach out a hand to help us across; if the cavity under the now nonexistent surface will be deep; if it’ll be like that forever or if the last summer rains will end up turning our building into a blue concrete island surrounded by gray waters. The sound of metal hitting stone doesn’t stop and, as the threat of the gaping hole in this courtyard grows, in some other part of the city they are breaking up a sidewalk; in another, someone is knocking down a wall; and in the small, rounded head of a child, gently resting against the window of a metro carriage, the crack of an idea opens up—the fissure of a new word.
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Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Jul 2, 2023
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