LITTLE LABORS

One August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, s he seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning.But Galchen didnt want to write about the puma. She had never been interested in babies, or in mothers before. Now everything seemed di rectly related to them and she specifically wanted to write about other things because it might mean she was really, covertly, learn ing someth...[Read more]