Culture

Fujiko Nakaya, Fog x FLO, Jamaica Pond, 2018 (courtesy of The Emerald Necklace Conservancy; photo by Melissa Ostrow) There is a game all children play. You lie on your back…

There was nothing to do but climb. The turquoise sky was immeasurable above the yuyuga tree, slim branches swaying and bending with heavy fruit. At ten years old, waking life…

“Denise Sullivan was born in San Francisco. She’s been chronicling the literary, musical and political history of her hometown for over three decades. In 2017, she edited the anthology, Your Golden Sun Still…

Image Credit: Kiernan Lofland     . . . to become white in the South is to absorb some large part of its particular iteration of the U.S. racial hierarchy.…

 I had no alternative; I was trapped by language. – Amitav Ghosh, In An Antique Land   In early 2009, carrying nine school semesters of French instruction, I landed in…

  by Paul Nelson [Editor’s Note: Last week I wrote a list of over 200 books about Los Angeles. This week we turn to Seattle and the guest columnist is…

Last year at #AWP18, in lieu of being able to secure an event space for the CCM/Entropy AWP reading, I brainstormed an idea to still have, in some small way,…

[Author’s Note: In the coming weeks I will be sharing other lists composed by not only me but voices I know from the Bay Area, Chicago, Seattle, New York City…

Part of being an artist is the struggle. The struggle to create, the struggle to find inspiration, the struggle to be. Perhaps that’s why not many of us make it…

If you truly wanted to unbury the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area circa 2018, it’s harder to imagine a more fitting fossil of the zeitgeist than this slogan…

Photo by Charles Bernstein February 12th, 2019 Hauser & Wirth Gallery, NYC Organized by Zoe Brezsny   Long-time friends, Cecilia Vicuña and Will Alexander came together for the first time…

Netflix Original Something in the Rain (or Pretty Noona Who Buys me Food) is a Korean drama that was released in March 2018. Critically acclaimed and boasting some of the…

Can You Ever Forgive Me? | dir. Marielle Heller | USA It’s 3:30 AM in Manhattan. A somewhat dowdy, middle-aged woman is sipping scotch to get through the late shift…

The Kindergarten Teacher | dir. Sara Colangelo | USA How do you capture total discontentment? Take a medium-sized rectangular box with dowdy robin’s egg walls. Add to that box a…