He Paves the Road With Iron Bars

Caroline Knox’s vision tears the seams of everyday life, turning expectations on their heads in favor of rediscovery. She pulls on a thread of language to ferret out surprises, absurdities, fascinating facts, time warps, Freudian slips of etymology and startling tenderness. In Knox’s world, everything is one syllable away from everything else, full of a rich connective and investigative energy traced by an expert hand.