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“Witness to a Murder” [by David Lehman]
Witness to a Murder — Barbara Stanwyck (1954) She saw a murder.She bought all the papers.She pocketed the murdered woman's earrings.She called the police.She smoked a cigarette.She told her story and was not…
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Balanchine Quiz [by Mindy Aloff]
Question: In the Igor Stravinsky score for the 1928 Balanchine ballet Apollon Musagète, today known as Apollo, which 17th-century French poet’s treatise, L’Art poétique—as the dance scholar Lynn Garafola has written—“sparked Stravinsky’s conception” and called for poets to…
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Rudy Burckhardt’s Photos at Tibor de Nagy (part two) [by Vincent Katz]
How Rudy Burckhardt photographed on the move is something of mystery. He did it, so we know it’s possible, but try to put yourself in his position. He must have moved with a dancer’s…
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“The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered” [by Clive James, 1939-2019]
The book of my enemy has been remainderedAnd I am pleased.In vast quantities it has been remainderedLike a van-load of counterfeit that has been seizedAnd sits in piles in a police warehouse,My enemy's much-prized…
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A Culture in Crisis: Jason Shinder on “Howl” [film by Bill Hayward]
"A culture in crisis…" from bill hayward on Vimeo.
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“Miss, Missed, Missing” [by Beth Gylys]
A shame you blew me off. I shaved my legs,the sheets are clean, the dust poodles all gone.I’ve spent the day lounging in my new dress or standing at the mirror (it does attestI’m…
