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The New York School Diaspora (Part Twenty-Eight): Claudia Keelan [by Angela Ball]
Life-Sentence(s) One full-grown woman A recently born child A gleam of sunshine & Pointed hill One saint in a silent movie Agee in a cab Martin King on a Memphis balcony Clouds when…
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Sean Thomas Dougherty: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Sean Thomas Dougherty, 2021. Photo by Melanie Rae ________________________________________________ Snowglobe It is late…
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For Memorial Day: Charles Laughton reads Walt Whitman, with music by Bernard Herrmann
In 1944, composer Bernard Herrmann, known for his film scores, collaborated with the producer Norman Corwin on “Whitman,” a half-hour dramatic presentation invoking America’s iconic poet to rally the home front during World War…
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From “What Princeton Did to My Husband” [by Solveig Lucia Gold]
Solveig Lucia Gold, Joshua Katz's wife, rises to the doleful occasion of the dismissal of Katz, the renowned professor of classics at Princeton. Princeton "has revoked my tenure and dismissed me," Katz writes. "Whoever…
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“Superbly Situated” [by Bob Hershon, May 28,1936 – March 20, 2021]
Superbly Situated you politely ask me not to die and i promise not toright from the beginning—a relationship based ongood sense and thoughtfulness in little things i would like to be loved for such…
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Here’s to you, Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud died in 2021 at the age of 101. A new book presents the painter's accomplishments. Wayne Thiebaud, Cold Case, 2010–13, Oil on canvas. The painting appears in Wayne Thiebaud: Updated Edition (Rizzoli Electa).
