The Northern Line: Stories by Mike Lee, Atmosphere Press, 2021 Reviewed by MK Sturdevant “I could see the hole. I knew it was a plane.”— from “The Details of Time” I made a decade-long career out of understanding and teaching seventeenth-century early modern philosophy. I know exactly what to say about the year 1641, but until reading Mike Lee’s collection of stories, I had no idea what to say about 2002, or 1997, or 1988, years in which I actually existed (a category of exi

by Mike Lee Nikolay Mitev The morning was the last day before fall, and at midnight the last summer shower would segue into the first autumn rain. The high school was built on the site of the old speedway. It closed years ago. Diana’s father remembered it. He talked about it some, telling Diana how it inspired him to work on cars, eventually going into business for himself with partners, repairing delivery trucks at his shop across the bridge from Woodfin. From above, the spr