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Interconnections across time, space, and universes: EXIT PARTY by Emily St. John Mandel
Nirica Srinivasan reviews EXIT PARTY, the latest novel from Canadian novelist and essayist Emily St. John Mandel […]
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Suffer the Children – MS. RACHEL showcases drawings by Palestinian refugee children in COLORS THAT SURVIVED at Caelum Gallery
Almost anyone with children (or grandchildren, or young nieces and nephews) is intimately familiar with educator and advocate Rachel Anne Accurso, known professionally as Ms. Rachel. For anyone who cares for children, she’s a wholesome […]
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IT AIN’T ME BABE: Richard Prince’s endless empty appropriations at Gagosian
Have you heard the cliche about white people not having any culture? If true, it’s best exemplified by the American artist Richard Prince. There’s a mobility to the dizzying array of personae he adopts which, […]
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CLUB VIDEO GLOWS UP
CLUB VIDEO is a DIY film festival showcasing experimental comedy shorts from 30+ creators. Launched in 2021 by hosts Micah Phillips (Comedy Central, Disney+, Nickelodeon) and Whitley Watson (John Wick 2, Adult Swim, JFL), […]
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The interstice between the real & the written in THE TIME OF THE NOVEL
Wendy’s Subway Poet and educator Lara Mimosa Montes plumbs the interstice between the real and the written in her debut fiction work, The Time of the Novel. The eleventh publication in Wendy’s Subway’s “Passage” series, […]
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STEAL THIS HOLZER
Want to steal an original Jenny Holzer? Joshua Caleb Weibley gives you some tips on just how you might do that (if you’re so inclined), along with his unflinching review of the confusing, problematic, […]
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THE HEARING TEST by Eliza Barry Callahan review
Jul 4 Jul 4 Silence as an architect of experience in THE HEARING TEST Tyler Nesler Writers, Reviews Photo by Eliza Soros By Nirica Srinivasan On August 29, 2019, the narrator of Eliza Barry Callahan’s […]
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The Met’s imaginary Indian skies
By Logan Royce Beitmen Just when you thought the Metropolitan Museum of Art was finally starting to free itself from its old colonial ways, it goes and mounts an exhibition like Indian Skies: The Howard […]
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The punk chimera of CLUB VIDEO
Club Video is a quarterly video showcase featuring short-form experimental comedy from independent creators. Started in 2021 by Whitley Watson and Micah Phillips, this DIY event has already launched numerous critically acclaimed shorts. Club […]
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Belonging and Not-Belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ROMAN STORIES
By Nirica Srinivasan “I will always feel like an outsider wherever I am,” Jhumpa Lahiri told HBR in 2022. This sentiment is clear in her early work, including Interpreter of Maladies (which won the […]
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A Reckoning With God in Lauren Groff’s THE VASTER WILDS
A young servant girl runs away one moonlit night into the unforgiving winter wilderness. She carries little with her—a pair of boots she stole from a dead man, a few meager supplies gathered from […]
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Modern Ambition & Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood
A sense of inevitability hangs heavy over Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, a fitting mood for a novel that takes its name and inspiration from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Birnam Wood is a novel about the future, […]
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NEW YORK IS DEAD, LONG LIVE NEW YORK: 8 Music Acts to Catch Live
New York City’s artistic magic lies in its ephemeral transience. Its eternal life lesson is to exist in the moment. Beloved institutions, artists and luminaries fade into the night; but one touchstone remains constant: the […]
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Review – MEMORIA
Tilda Swinton in Memoria – NEON By Tyler Nesler What does it take to sell out an art house movie theater on New Year’s Day in the middle of the latest pandemic surge of the […]
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Holidelic – EVERETT BRADLEY
Holidelic – EVERETT BRADLEY If you’re tired of the same holiday music every year – GRAMMY-nominated percussionist Everett Bradley has a new single out to add to your playlists… The “Unknown Legend” (Rolling Stone) has […]
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TITANE REVIEW
The experience of watching French film director Julia Ducournau’s TITANE is akin to a direct visceral immersion into the titular material itself, which is “a metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile […]
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Review – THE CHOE SHOW
Review – THE CHOE SHOW Artist David Choe on The Choe Show – FX “Everything I do now is in the spirit of giving back,” the artist David Choe says in The Choe Show, his […]