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A Woman’s Laughter [by Charles Coe]
On a recording of the Bill Evans trio,Live at the Village Vanguard,late June '61, during a slow, haunting versionof "I Loves You Porgy," at the quietest moment,in the background, soft but clear, a woman's…
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Der Blaue Reiter [by Wassily Kandinsky]
Cover of Der Blaue Reiter by Wassily Kandinsky (1911) The blue rider rode on the blue horse Franz Marc painted in 1911.World War I killed Marc and returned Kandinsky to Russiauntil 1921 when Walter Gropius…
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Emily Jungmin Yoon: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________________ Say Grace In my country our shamans were women and our gods multiple until white people brought an ecstasy of rosaries and our…
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Professor Frake [by Molly Arden]
Professor Frake Is a hard-ass; takes pridein the low grades he gives; publishes essays; gives offense;carries the lamp of a seeker of truthin a benighted age of compulsory bullshit;but, hell, this guy’s a fake, and…
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Brueghel’s Icarus and Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” [by David Lehman]
Landscape With the Fall of Icarus’ (c. 1560s), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder—the focus of Auden’s final stanza.ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM By David Lehman Published in The Wall Street Journal under the heading…
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“Virginity” [by Amy Gerstler]
Virginity Lying down on the rug with someone and getting dustbunnies in your hair. The eloquence of long pauses.Passing notes rather than speaking. A basement foggedwith pot smoke. Trying to read another body via…
