A Tourist in Oxford

Austere verticals on this unflinching facade stun the idle tourist.

I had a moment, by the open windows looking past two moldy chunks of parapet onto tall green-leaved trees, of perfect contentment. I wasn’t ecstatic but

Bradley Manning Is My Son

A black kid got shot for wearing a hoody and President Obama said, “My son would look like Trayvon Martin.” My son would not look like Bradley Manning, who’s only five feet tall. But for rhetorical purposes, let me call him my son.