by Katie Schaag with Sarah Ciston, Sam Cohen, Kate Durbin, Feliz Lucia Molina, and Sandra Rosales Katie Schaag: At the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference in San…
Sometime in the mid-’90s, I had a phone conversation with my older brother David (who prefers the moniker “DaveR”), in which I shared my growing appreciation of New Music—avant-garde work…
a contemporary depiction of Karacaoğlan Karacaoğlan is not only one of the most famous ashiks [a poet-singer who writes, composes and sings love ballads, moving constantly from place to place]…
Image caption: surface detail of Donald Judd’s Untitled (1984) at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO, February 2018 1. Across a gray, slightly pocked concrete surface—in what…
Pasko na sinta ko / Hanap-hanap kita / Bakit magtatampo’t / Nilisan ako / Kung mawawala ka / Sa piling ko sinta / Paano ang Pasko / Inulila mo It’s…
Birkenhead was built around a shipyard, Cammell Laird. When I was nine years old it closed down. Our school was taken to the yard as the last submarine built there…
In the Western European Renaissance, the retrieval of antiquity and fulfillment in life became desirable goals, and it is in the music of Josquin des Prez in which these ideals…
I can’t stop remembering an incident with a middle school bully named Amanda Barba. We were 12 years old. “You shouldn’t speak to me like that you little faggot. Are…
photo credit:SIGNA/goldmann Imagine an association of people moved to shelter and care for those, whose pain prevents them from functioning normally in society, who then use their charges to study…
The strong and steadfast Los Angeles sun no doubt has restorative powers. Well-being emanates from its bright light, an outdoor lifestyle is perennially uplifting; flowers, fruit and trees thrive in…
I was initially interested in the new documentary, Wojnarowicz, for the glimpse it promised into the 1980s East Village art scene–a time and place that holds great curiosity and sentimentality…
She wants to move. He doesn’t. She wants the rhythms of the city, the accidents of observation, her husband’s faith that she can be well in a less self-preserving, routine-contriving…
film still from Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders If films—as many have pointed out before—are an approximate for dreams, then Band of Outsiders is a dream in which the figures…
scarf by Amy Sarig King The question before us is bread. The fluff of the flour and the crystals of salt. The warm-water yeast and the well into which she…