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Issue 299 | Volume 25
November 2024
Rough Sleepers of San Francisco The Photography of Jon Rendell
In Love with a Corpse Comparing Two Classic Films Revealing and discussing major plot developments in two classic movies: Laura, the 1944 film by Otto Preminger, and Vertigo, the 1958 film by Alfred Hitchcock. Miles David Moore
See the USA The Travel Diary of Alice B. Toklas Hans Gallas
Ploy Kasom พลอย กาสม
A new generation artist, her work is loved all over the world because she creates things she loves and is happy every day. Janine Yasovant
Corvid Mug What a rickety, rackety system we sport—no wonder we want titanium exoskeletons to relieve the jury-rigged bone-bucket from the pull of gravity and the pelting of the world. Michael Bettencourt
It is 90 Seconds to Midnight It is November 1, 2024, four days before the world-wide American presidential election and 90 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. Arthur Danin Adler
Bloody unfair/Hello is that you? We all have dates we dread. It's one minute after midnight, so it's the day. September 26th. Claudine Jones
While You Slept While you slept, the world still turned on its axis. The sun still shone brightly somewhere. People loved; people hated. Les Marcott
A dónde vamos: Poems for Hispanic Heritage Month September 15 is Independence Day for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Americans of Latinx heritage have enriched our culture in countless ways. Gregory Luce
Rab's Five steps through a door chocked open with a dumbbell straight out of a Popeye cartoon. It's palpably hotter inside than the humid mid -July soup you left behind in the street. Patrick Walsh
IN Series Production of The Cradle Will Rock The Goldman Theater of the Washington, DC Jewish Community Center presented a polished performance of this legendary work. Karren Alenier
Cutthroat Bandits in the Paths of Fame The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Re-Visiting June 2020 Kandinsky's Creativity: Laughter, the Trouser Button, and the Sugar Pot So many of the early pieces in this series–since 2019–deserve re-visiting by its longtime readers, as well as by readers who joined us more recently. Lissa Tyler Renaud
One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
Today, many readers believe that Bishop's "one and only villanelle" is her greatest poem.
David Alpaugh
The Artist as Blind Seer: A New Perspective on de Chirico/ Part 3Perhaps the most important immediate predecessor to the Surrealists, who adopted and then abandoned him. Brian George
writings
Chicken Bone (Part Four) My Story with Ernest Hemingway Altenir Silva FBI agent? I was completely shocked by what Allison told me. Then, she approached me, and face to face, murmured, "I really need your help.".
images
Animatia with the poem Aux Barricades The Art of David Wiley
The Art of SS. Burrus A Retrospective
When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people will appear on the Earth
Patrick Nagel It's in the Eyes
media
Audio
Theatre Thoughts An entertaining array of audio essays on an array of theatre topics by an astute and entertaining essayist
You Don't Say! Occasional Musings by an occasionally amused writer
Video
Undress Me In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her, by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue
Light Fantastic Weighty matters of brain neurons and addiction, two kisses, single-malt scotch, the green dance of blue, yellow lasers
Ear Buds What happens when we love our devices — and they love us back
The Greed Gene A young couple is told by their genetic counselor that their child has the greed gene, there is nothing they can do
letters
Letters to the Editor
books
Special—Issues
July/August 2015|●
Everything Old Is New Again January 2013|●
What Is Obscenity and What's Not? January 2012|●
A Brief But Quirky History of the Arts January 2011|●
The Rising Fall of the Arts January 2010|●
The One January 2009|●
What Is Art? January 2008|●
View of the Arts January 2007|●
The Art of Sex in the Arts February 2006|●
State of the Art of the Arts October 2005|●
Special—Indexes
The Steiny Road Index of Karren Alenier's columns and writings|●
Writings Index of Arthur Danin Adler's columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
Good Reading Is Currently On Sale Here
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