The Agony and the Ecstasy
Posted on 09. Feb, 2001 by Jessica Bulman in Uncategorized
Are moments of religious transcendence illumination or illness? Mark Salzman (BR ’82) probes this question in his most recent novel, Lying Awake, and, to his credit, does not answer it. Setting his novel at the crossroads of mysticism and medicine, Salzman refrains from both sermonizing and diagnosing, instead offering his readers a poetic meditation on [...]
Cell Division
Posted on 30. Oct, 2000 by Jessica Bulman in Uncategorized
Dazenia Henry’s son was awakened in the middle of a cold December night last year, shackled, hog-tied, and put on a bus heading south. Twenty-two hours later, he arrived at Wallens Ridge State Prison, a super-maximum ("supermax") security facility in Virginia, and was placed in a cell where he would spend 23 hours of each [...]
