Both literary criticism and memoir, Alden Jones’s The Wanting Was a Wilderness serves to deconstruct the craft through Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild, and to construct her own narrative. It begins…
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Character Mitch Larsen, “The Killing” Sunday evenings in high school, I attended youth services at a local evangelical church. One Sunday, I tagged along on a post-worship excursion to the…
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Cold Light (detail): site-specific installation, hand-cut wallpaper, video by Summer J. Hart. Image courtesy of the artist, used by permission. Confined to my Bermuda home thanks to a deadly microbe,…
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CultureLiteratureReview“To feel that close, when you’re not really close”: Notes on reading during a pandemic, reading as friendship, and reading as survival in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Sketchtasy
In the beginning of Hervé Guibert’s autofictional novel To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, he describes the book he’s writing as a “companion […] someone with whom…
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ArtCulturePerformance“As If It Were Part of Breathing”: An Interview with Theatre Artist Leigh Kennicott
Film and television dominate the arts in Los Angeles, but L.A. has a thriving theatre culture that hasn’t received the attention the New York stage commands. Even during the pandemic,…
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I. You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun It is difficult to discuss Fiona’s craft without also discussing the unrelenting interest in her trauma, her mental illness, her…
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Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome A few years ago I discovered the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD and the Royal Opera House’s Live Cinema Season programs, which revolutionized my enjoyment of opera.…
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How has the pandemic has changed theater, aside from the obvious fact that live audiences are currently forbidden? At this point it’s impossible for plays to rehearse. People cannot gather…
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“Hands,” Leonardo Rizzi, Creative Commons When I attended Mass Before, the priest told us a few things: 1) If we were taking Communion, we could not allow the officiants to…
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“AIDS is not over, sickness will never be over, care will always be needed. Moving towards justice means learning how to care from the past and present going forward.” –…
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still from the film Rosas Danst Rosas, directed by Stefaan Decostere These days everyone in my life seems to have an obsession: wormeries, reusable tissues, queer Tinder bios in rural…
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ArtCultureFilmA Black Feminist’s Response to Trump’s Question: “Can We Get Gone with the Wind Back, Please?”
The novel and film Gone with the Wind is a huge footnote in the history of America’s Jim Crow era. Among its main characters are Ashley Wilkes, once a southern…
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photo detail from Dustin Yellin’s Psychogeography Series, an installation for New York City Ballet, 2015 Broadway went dark, companies canceled seasons, studios shut down operations, theaters closed. For an artist,…
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Interior, 1939, Vanessa Bell © 1961 estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett. Photo credit: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service) The minute I expected the view from my window to…
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