Alessandra Lopez in Antigone in Analysis, March 19, 2026. Photograph by Marina Levitskaya. For a few weeks this spring, you couldn’t swing a thyrsus in New York without hitting a play about…
A Month or So, Minneapolis
Courtesy of Jake Lancaster. When Alex Pretti was shot ten times in South Minneapolis on a cold but sunny Saturday morning in front of a doughnut shop, I was likely three or…
The World of Aramco
Aramco World, January–February 1980 cover, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. “I had come to Poland to seek out the story of Count Rzewuski and other Polish adventurers who had traveled from the…
The Wuthering Heights of Edna Clarke Hall
Edna Clarke Hall, aged sixteen, ca. 1895. Photograph courtesy of Abbott and Holder Ltd. The artwork of Edna Clarke Hall was born out of a kind of fixation more often associated with…
Sunday at La Bombonera
Photograph by Hernán Piñera from Marbella, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Clásicos are like Christmas for football. In these high-tension matches between fierce rivals, expectation almost always outstrips results….
In the Ring with Frederick Wiseman
Photograph by Antoine Yar, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. So uninterested was I in coming out of the closet at the dawn of the twenty-first century that the thought…
The One Thousand Blobcows Born Each Year
Photograph by Hans5400, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. A spotted creature is rolled across gravel. Another is placed on a dinner plate, then cradled in two palms. These were meant…
Kafka’s Misdiagnosis
Drawings by Franz Kafka. Courtesy of the Literary Estate of Max Brod, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Public domain. In a diary entry from February 1922, Franz Kafka writes of a deal…
The World Is an Easier Place Without You In It
All photographs courtesy of Karen Shepard. September 17, 2023, 11:22 P.M. From: Ymei Subject: ….swiss self-end-of-life… To: Karen Shepard how much advance notice does one need for a date.. ? are there…
Sagrado Corazón
Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón, Bilbao. Photograph by Zarateman, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. I was fifteen in the year 2000. Turn of the millennium, turn of tables and tides. Every morning there…