Adam Talib

Oct 26, 2023 | brickmag.com | Robert Bringhurst |Adam Talib |Thomas Larson

In memoriam Stan Dragland, 1942–2022Life is language, I wanted to say. Only problem: it isn’t. Not language exactly, not languageas such. Not a particular language either, thoughit has a lot to say—in fact, no end of thingsto say—and it can listen through the cracks, as everylanguage needs to do. Is it something like a language? A metaphor for language? Or is language a metaphor for it? Of course, of course. But more like many languages than one.

Oct 23, 2023 | brickmag.com | Adam Talib |Thomas Larson

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them.   — Rainer Maria Rilke

Oct 20, 2023 | brickmag.com | Adam Talib |Allison Markin Powell |Thomas Larson

No, this wasn’t a frown. It wasn’t even an expression. This was simply the usual position of Umm Kevork’s eyebrows, agreeing with everything she might say. The same was true of her head, nose, and upper lip; each rose up to indicate her perpetual feeling of disgust.