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Some Notes on Hitchcock’s Movies [by David Lehman]
Three of Hitchcock's movies are allegories: "The Lady Vanishes" is an allegory of Western reaction to Nazi aggression as Europe crept to the second World War. On the train there is an appeaser and…
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Fragments 103-112 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
I am four, watching two big kids play catch on Essex Street in East New York, Brooklyn. An arm thrusts forward and the ball takes flight, soaring toward the rooftops, loses steam, heading for…
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Story, sensibility & sense: MC Hominal, dance real slow to dance good
“Taxi Dancers” makes waiting for … what? watchable, something reminiscent of Delacroix's harem but with a plain sour rather than saccharine – Photo ©Gregory Batardon I've been waiting up all night/But you never show/You…
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Meditations on John Ashbery [by Vincent Katz]
Juan Martín del Potro is playing Rafael Nadal in the Semifinal at the U.S. Open, and suddenly I am thinking how John Ashbery could, had he been watching, turn all this — the court,…
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Remembering Kate Millett [by Catharine R. Stimpson]
Kate Millett, sculptor, author and feminist, on her booted stool by her useless piano, two-headed bed and bachelor chest at Judson Memorial Church in New York, March 1st, 1967. Photograph: Neal Boenzi/The New…
