Shay O'Brien

Shannon Pufahl

Shannon Pufahl is a former music writer and now a novelist who teaches writing at Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review and The Paris Review, and her novel, On Swift Horses, was published in 2019.

The Look of Lesbian Love

Recent films like Ammonite and Portrait of a Lady on Fire make a spectacle of same-sex desire, but who is meant to enjoy the view?

December 28, 2020

Numbering the Dead

A hundred and fifty years ago, a strange notion: the dead could be counted. Now, we speak easily in the statistics of absence, of fifty dead in a mass shooting, of fourteen hundred missing in an earthquake, as if this has always been done.

April 21, 2020

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