Rattlebone by Maxine Clair

Reading Maxine Clair’s Rattlebone is an encounter with a great writer’s singular mind.

Sara SchaffMay 10, 2025Rattlebone, Maxine Clair, McNally Editions, Artbooks, Hauser & Wirth, Nove-in-stories, Fiction, Beautiful proseComment

A Few (More) Good Things

Autocrats do not make things, they destroy them. Artists, activists, and intellectuals will keep building. Here are a few well-built things to listen to, read, and watch right now.

Voting from Bogotá in 2004

In reality, the kind of country we wanted to return to never existed.

Sara SchaffFebruary 2, 2025Kerry v Bush, 2004 elections, Plan Colombia, American foreign policyComment

A Few Good Things

A lot of things are terrible right now. Here are a few things that are not.

Sara SchaffJanuary 19, 2025good things, excellence, art, One of Them Days, The Stacks Podcast, The Wall, celebrating artComment

Celebrating Saranac Review's Twentieth Issue

I want to celebrate this beautiful magazine for a minute.

Sara SchaffDecember 24, 2024Comment

Spirit Capitalism

I can’t be the only one who has noticed that the nearer we get to fascism, the more inflatable ornaments encroach on our lawns.

Sara SchaffDecember 13, 2024lawn decor, inflatable holiday decorationsComment

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