Death

Death Watch

By Sophie Calle,

By Sophie Calle, a French conceptual artist, from an interview with Eleanor Wachtel for CBC Radio One that was published in the Winter 2016 issue of Brick. Her work Pas…

When I Die

By Brooke Jarvis,

An end-of-life doctor faces his own end

Selfie Styx

From news reports of injuries and deaths since 2014 that occurred during attempts to take selfies. Read More

Silent Majority

By John Berger,

From Portraits, by John Berger, which was published last month by Verso. A contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, Berger is the author of numerous books, including Ways of Seeing (1972).…

Lipstick

By Luz,

By Luz, from Catharsis, his memoir about the terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January. Luz, a cartoonist for the magazine, was late to work on the…

Dressed to Kill

By John Crowley,

For my birthday last year, my wife bought me three hours with Chris Davis, a master falconer and breeder of hawks. My time would be spent meeting the hawks that…

The Joke

By Justin Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

By Night In Chile

By Lola Arias,

By Lola Arias, from her play The Year I Was Born, recently produced at the Under the Radar Festival, in New York. During the performance, eleven Chilean actors presented autobiographical…

In My Father’s Study upon His Death

By Dylan Landis,

By Dylan Landis, the author of several books, including Rainey Royal, her first novel, published last month by Soho Press. Read More

Stop Time

By Chloe Dewe Mathews, Geoff Dyer,

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

The Boys on the Block

By Gordon Lish,

My personal memoir

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