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Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay in Kubrick’s “The Killing” [by John Harbourne]
For more of John Harbourne's pioctures, visit this site:johnharbourneartist.comcopyright (c) 2022 by John Harbourne Epitaph for a Genre: On Kubrick's "The Killing" [by David Lehman] Adapted by Stanley Kubrick and Jim Thompson from the…
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“Disappearance—My Euridyce” [by Lynn Emanuel]
Disappearance—My Euridyce 1967, New York City, East River From Jackson Pollock, I had learned to hateBotticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”– Those white, white sheets–thrown back covers of the breakers’ unmade bed, and Venusuncombed,…
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“Shanked on the Red Bed” [by Susan Wheeler]
Shanked on the Red Bed The perch was on the roof, and the puck was in the air.The diffident were driving, and the daunted didn't care.When I came out to search for you the…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: DECEMBER 14, 2022
Stephanie Burt's We Are Mermaids was published earlier this year. It's a delightful look at the emotional difficulties and triumphs of girlhood, the places of watery air and airy water, the brackishness of in-between spaces. The gorgeous…
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Festival Signes d’Automne 2022 at the Belleville Swan # 1: a right approach, time and place for contemporary dance [by Tracy Danison]
“Wel come” by Joachim Maudet with Pauline Bigot and Sophie Lèbre, cie Les Vagues, produced for “Festival Signes d’Automne” 2022, Regard du Cygne. Photo © Jean Gros-Abadie I ended the 2022 edition of the…
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Four Interesting Covers [by Lewis Saul]
A cover song is a new recording of a previously released song that someone else wrote. So the first two examples don't really fit that definition — they are more like transformations: Miles Davis was…