James A. Reeves

A camera obscura photo from tonight’s special guest Deb Chachra: “In July 2023, I went to Naples to spend a week working with Wayne Chambliss, who was doing fieldwork for his practice-based doctoral project in human geography.

We were invited to play a game we did not understand but rich and famous people played it all the time so we thought it’d be okay.

1 Back to my childhood fear of mannequins, how I couldn't enter a department store without bursting into tears.

Photograph by Oliver Farshi 1 In the autumn of 2008, just as the financial crisis was about to hit, C. was offered a job at Nokia.

Boils down five thousand years of religion and philosophy to a tight twenty-five minutes: "Whatever gave you the idea you were in Heaven, Mr.

In the aesthetic dimension of vision and dream, the question in itself is an answer.

I can't deal with the New York Times anymore.

The first God Is All Mouth video is now haunting the Information Superhighway: a breakneck journey from ancient storm gods to the development of pantheons, monotheism, and alienation—and maybe we’re heading back to the zone of mystical imagination.

I made two songs this month made while writing and painting and learning about minor chords.

Every showing is full of secrets.

The announcement came over loudspeakers: There would be another thirty years of monsters.

1 One of my most valuable possessions is the pawn my father carved eleven years ago to replace the one we’d lost from our chess set.

Earl and his truck 1 But I'm still thinking about beauty, how it is incidental and cannot be contrived.

The Agony of Eros was my first encounter with Han's philosophy, and I was especially struck by his argument that, despite being a trendy thing to say at dinner parties, capitalism is very much not a religion.

1 Nine years ago, I was unexpectedly alone in Rome so I spent the day at the Barberini, where I consumed so much Bernini and Caravaggio that my brain was stunned into silence by all that fleshy marble and bloody oil.

1 At my Thursday night Men's Spirituality Book Club, we've been debating the recovery cliché that "acceptance is the answer," which sounds so limp and lazy.

Hiromi Kawakami's Under the Eye of the Big Bird begins as an austere fable in the vein of Woman in the Dunes or Never Let Me Go before it unfurls into a uniquely strange creature.

1 Parking garages are the most frequent setting for my dreams.

Klimt’s masterpiece is this rendering of Judith with an expression so seductive and relaxed it's defiant.