Today’s Best of 2015 selection comes from our director, Patricia Maloney, who writes, “In her heartbreaking memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion accounts for grief’s measure of time as very different from chronological time. It keeps one suspended in a particular moment or progressing from that moment at a glacial pace in comparison to the pace of days and weeks. In her review of Ten[…..]

In the aftermath of a catastrophe, memorialization and remembrance are inevitably tied to forms of forgetting. These often take the shape of reactionary modes that proclaim an urgent desire to smooth over the eruptive, unresolved conflicts that shape our collective past and place them into digestible modes of representation.[1] However, for the communities that bear witness to the impact of a disastrous event, forgetting is[…..]