Close to the Knives Anton Chekhov encountering the city's wildlife in

encountering the city's wildlife in the most unexpected places

technology and mass migration all collide with ever-hardening borders

Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate

those words—remained fixed

Here is Rickman the consummate professional actor

Close to the Knives Anton Chekhov encountering the city's wildlife inFrom the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.