Pamela Mulloy

Mo Duffy understands that explosions are a release of energy, and that during this reaction, energy is changed, not destroyed. When her world was shattered, she called upon these principles of quantum mechanics, which she had learned in her twenties. “I had this recurring image of my life, as if I’d seen it explode with my own eyes,” she…

Early in her career, the journalist Cathrin Bradbury was assigned an interview with Umberto Eco. “Assigned” is something of an understatement: her boss had gestured to the train tracks outside their office in downtown Toronto and threatened to tie her to them if she didn’t deliver. Although she failed to secure the profile, she did receive a consolatory telegram from the Italian writer in the form of a…

A great traveller (in distinction to a merely good one) is a kind of introspective; as she covers the ground outwardly, so she advances towards fresh interpretations of herself inwardly.— Lawrence Durrell The woman whose place we were to rent in Paris contacted me to ask whether, after yet another terrible year, we still intended to visit her…