By Tara Stillions Whitehead ENTER death as sound blackening an already shadowy scene—as a long, hard lament from the HORN of the failed getaway car. Then, as a YOUNG WOMAN. Everything is lost; everyone has lost. At this distance, death is an exquisite execution of convention. A triumph of method acting. Near-perfect cinema. It will [...]
By Mark Blickley Artist's note: This past fall, I co-curated an exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal, Tributaries, that opened on Sept. 30th and ran for ten weeks, under the auspices of the international artist's cooperative, Urban Dialogues. While in Lisbon, I went into the oldest continuous bookstore in the world, Chiado Bertrand Bookstore, which was founded in 1732 (the year [...]
By Anastasia Vassos She stops, breathless, she lifts her heel behind her to straighten her stocking before she pulls at her jacket to make sure there are no wrinkles, before she runs into H.R. breathless to tell Susan, who’s sitting at her desk, that Bob continues to make lewd comments and won’t let it go, no [...]
By Penny Perry She pulled up in her dented VW, twenty miles from her cockroach-filled kitchen. Five feet tall, wearing a three-dollar dress from Lerner’s. The dress long and black, looked expensive. N.O.W. had picketed the all male institute the year before. Marble floors. Carved wood staircases. Louis the 14th chairs. The study where one [...]
By Crystal Stone Her husband enlisted: eager to fight, eager to serve. She was a good wife, accepted this. She could argue, but why fight? The last night the sun set pale in their wine by the garden. The last kiss was fragile—lips thin and chapped with goodbyes. In his absence, she bathed behind a [...]
By R.R. Marsh #MeToo. It took me several moments to post the words on my Facebook account. I had to think through my past—a place I generally prefer to avoid—and consider events I had ignored for quite some time. Had I been a victim of sexual assault? Or was I fashioning mere slips of male [...]
