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MACKENDRICK: Sweet Smell of Success (1957) [by Lewis Saul]
Alexander Mackendrick Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), a press agent, is pissed. J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) has been shutting his gossip out of his famous newspaper column for days now — all because…
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Anna Eva Bergman: woman painter, woman’s painting, woman as painter [by Tracy Danison]
Anna-Eva Bergman N°33 1947 ‘Ensomhet’ huset (gyllne snitt), “Solitude: the house (gold part)” Gestern, hab’ich zu viel Weißwein getrunken… It’s always so difficult to know where to begin. The sound of the phrase Gestern,…
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Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath
Giorgio de Chirico, turning away from the surreal landscapes and abstract forms of his great period, went for refreshment to mythology, as in his 1940 painting "The Boar Hunt." That's how I started out.…
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Phillip B. Williams: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________ Epithalamium A kiss. Train ride home from a late dinner, City Hall and…
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Last Love [by Nikolay Zabolotsky, trans. Boris Dralyuk]
The car rumbled and came to a stop.Two emerged into the space of evening,and the driver, exhausted by work,|slumped down wearily onto the wheel. Constellations of lights, far away,trembled gently through the windshield.The aged…
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Darragh Park’s cover for “New American Writing” (#1, 1987)
In 1987, Darragh Park did the wraparound cover for the first issue of New American Writing (edited by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover). The magazine had been formerly known as Oink! Here is the front:
