In this spring’s issue of Bellevue Literary Review, please read my essay “Conduit.” It’s about voicelessness and serving as voice for another: my time as medical interpreter.

Tag: fishes

Aug 04 2014

On whence loaves and fishes come.

Last Sunday’s gospel was one of the best known of Jesus’s miracles, one that has crossed the boundary between religious and popular discourse and inspired discussion on compassion and charity as much as the meaning of Sacrament, on a holistic approach to the person—body and soul—as much as the malleability of natural laws. It is …

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Nov 18 2013

On the baffling being of words.

My American interlocutors on occasion find little quirks in my speech, and some of those have to do with seemingly random relationships, concepts of a Russian-speaking mentality that my mind, for some reason, has refused to let go. Mostly, they are funny. I do not know why I’ve transitioned in my thought patterns in a …

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