Proust never needed a cathedral for the madeleine to work — a $4 airline shiraz does just as well. A new essay on inherited displacement, Angel Marina, and the grammar of erasure that survivors sometimes learn well enough to use on others. blakandblack.com/2026/08/02/t...

The Man From Nowhere: A Madeleine at Thirty Thousand FeetA bottle of red, a madeleine biscuit ... the mundane things that trigger involuntary memory.blakandblack.com