Clive Oppenheimer: Werner Herzog’s True Virgil
December 16, 2016
The volcanologist on "red water," white whales, and the center of the earth.
Rebecca Bates
Anne Carson’s Collapse of History
July 13, 2012
The author's Antigonick is an affecting interpretation of Sophocles' classic.
A Critique of War, An “Orgy of Death”
February 27, 2012
Artist Adel Abdessemed presents a brutal commentary on violence and spectatorship.
I Ran Away From Home and All I Got Was This Lousy Deportation
January 5, 2012
A Dallas teen missing since 2010 turns up in Colombia, where she was deported after a mistaken identity.
Dario Robleto: Best 2011 Art Show NYers Won’t See
December 22, 2011
The Texas-based artist’s solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center confronts human-induced extinction.
Comic Con Tales from Behind the Booth
October 26, 2011
Glimpses into adult Halloween, where delusion is (more than) a costume you wear as second skin and candy is JJ Abrams’s used napkin.
Mr. McKibben Goes to Washington: The Final Anti-Tar Sands Pipeline Rally
September 8, 2011
These days it seems you can’t be a real environmentalist without a rap sheet… but to what avail?
The Writerly Insecurities of Ben Mirov (And How They Are Not a Gimmick)
July 19, 2011
| In the best way, reading Ben Mirov’s Vortexts is like perpetually trying to recover one’s train of thought mid-sentence but always failing. |
