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A critic's notebook. Dispatches on art, literature, culture, etc.

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Memory

No doorways, just places to move between. The ocean smiles open for a picture, much less willingly with words. A picture smiles a moment but when a human is present the moment becomes strained with pretense, a contamination. Somewhere betwe...

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Crisis of Mystery

A still from Jean Cocteau’s La Villa Santo-Sospir: “…since being a poet means publicly confiding one’s secrets…”

THERE IS A LINE from Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Poetry interview that often makes the rounds on Instagram: “There’s nothing mor...

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Between silence and scream

“We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.” —Francis Bacon

I. Silence

ON THE AMTRAK, the quiet car is a relief, silence being the sole co...

a year ago
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Holiday watchlist

We are swiftly approaching that awkward stretch of holiday time, that period between Christmas Eve Eve and New Year’s when it’s permissible to do nothing productive. As someone who always feels like there’s never enough time in a day and, a...

a year ago
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Good Bad Mothers

“It’s easy to typecast the mother.”

“The Good Mother” (2007), Louise Bourgeois

Fierce Attachments

Vivian Gornick, 1987

Minding the Gap

Bing Liu, 2018

Didi

Sean Wang, 2024

New Wave: A Documentary

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2 years ago
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