Madame Nielsen’s novel The Endless Summer is an elegy for youth, a sensuous reflection on its fleeting promise and unrealized possibilities. Nielsen touches on gender, sexuality, love, death, and art, but, like her characters, those themes largely remain archetypal, opaque. Rather, Nielsen emphasizes the power of language in memorializing life, in imbuing it with meaning.
Read MoreThis week in “things we like,” essayist and artist Aisha Mirza shares with us some of their favorite things, which includes a blog about Afrofuturism and the Caribbean and African diaspora in Britain, the music of Kadhja Bonet, and their grandmother’s mince puff pastries.
Read MoreBrandon Jordan Brown is a Portland, Oregon-based poet who frequently collaborates with filmmakers and other artists. Here, he shares with us some of the things he likes, including theopoetics, C.D. Wright’s Deepstep Come Shining, and the Japanese band toe.
Read MoreFady Joudah’s stunning Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance feels like slowly remembering pieces of a dream. The book of poems examines reanimation in a multitude of forms—reanimation of body, of memory, of myth, and of emotion.
Read MorePerennial, Kelly Forsythe’s debut poetry collection, tackles a subject that has become unfortunately ubiquitous in American culture: the Columbine High School shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999.
Read MoreA look at the new wave of successful young poets representing the diversity of American identity, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend gets adapted to an HBO series, two writers discuss writing transness in transgressive language, and more.
Read MoreYoung Latinx Artists 23: Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges asked up-and-coming Latinx artists and curators to consider and explore the border between the U.S. and Mexico, a flashpoint for so much contemporary political sorrow and strife.
Read MoreYoko Tawada’s The Emissary, newly translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, takes place following an unnamed disaster which causes Japan to completely cut itself off from the world.
Read MoreA look at the rise of queer fabulist fiction by women writers, a chronicle of the decade when we almost turned the tide on climate change, controversial poetry from Anders Carlson-Wee and the pitfalls of adopting others’ identities in art, and more.
Read MoreIn Belly Up, all of Rita Bullwinkel’s characters are ghosts, haunted, or both. The cast of ghosts includes: dead strangers, dead husbands, dead neighbors’ husbands, husbands in prison camps, the people that frequent 24-hour donut shops, Floridians, and more.
Read MoreThere exists bad art, intentionally bad art, art remarking on bad practices, and art modifying bad practices. This week in weekend links, we’re reading about bad versus good art, Earth Overshoot Day, and a photographer’s series of stock images showcasing “The New Mods,” a group of young women who seek greater visibility for modestly dressed, typically religious young men and women in the UK media.
Read MoreAuthor Matthew Sharpe speaks with artist Sue Havens about her work, Turkish embroidery, ephemera, raku ceramics, and more.
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