The squishiness of an hour-old fertilized egg can predict its viability, ....

... The Memory Palace [is] Edward Hollis's idiosyncratic tour of a series of historical interiors that have all disappeared or been dismantled. ... Hollis might have done far more with literature's unique contribution to our sense of domestic space as both commemorative and creative. ... [A]mid all the palaces with their dreamlike interiors, there is puzzlingly no place for the many oneiric palaces of poetry.

Both strategies reflect a modern clinical emphasis on the malfunctionings of the psychological and biological processes of the body […]

a tombstoned landscape