I find the idea that we write alone laughable, even egotistical. Poetry is a palimpsest that has been endlessly rewritten—it’s a social space we share with others.
—
Jen Bervin
Lovers by Adam Fuss
- Julian Barnes by Patrick McGrath
- James Rosenquist by Mary Ann Staniszewsk
- Richard Greenberg by Craig Gholson
- Diane Kurys by Bette Gordon
- Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe by David Shapiro
- In Her Own Voice by Saul Ostrow
Interviews
- Return to Sender by Klaus Kertess
- The Colorist by Susan Daitch
- Executrix by Barry Yourgrau
- Five Poems by Charles Culhane
- A Poem in Two Homes by Eileen Myles
- Borrowed Times by Gary Indiana
- The Hilt by Gordon Lish
First Proof
- Lovers by Adam Fuss
- Mont Sainte Victoire by Mark Tansey
- Inventory by Suzan Etkin
- The Telescope with its lenses had swallowed the stars by Fariba Hajamadi
- Artistic Anatomy by Tyler Turkle
- Two Paintings by Meyer Vaisman
- Dystopia by Orshi Drozdik
- New York Collections Preview: Spring/Summer 1988 by Zachy Sherif
- Two Works by Philip Galgiani
- Site of the First Self-sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction December 2, 1942; Chicago, Illinois by James Welling
- Matisse and Laura Ashley Border by Jane Kaplowitz
- Untitled (After Alexander Rodchenko 4) by Sherrie Levine
More
Adam Fuss, Lovers, 1987, silverprint, 20 × 24 inches. Courtesy Massimo Audiello Gallery.
Related
MOLLY, MERCY, MADELINE,
MYRA, MAGGIE, MEREDITH,
MARLEY, MAGDA, MARGARET,
MINDY, MILLIE, MAGDALA,
MYRNA, MOIRA, MARIANNE,
MARLA, MAURA, MARIGOLD,
MEGHAN, MARY, MILLICENT,
MAITE, MAPLE, MITZI.
Pacale Marthine Tayou is a Cameroonian artist based in Belgium. His work has appeared in documenta11 (2002) in Kassel, two Venice Biennales (2005 and 2009), and numerous international exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions took place at the Serpentine Galleries, London, and Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, both in 2015.
Gabriele Beveridge has quite the eye for sad-looking models in posters—the kind of women who hawk things like hair dye and shampoo.
Originally published in
BOMB 21,
Fall 1987
James Rosenquist, Julian Barnes by Patrick McGrath, Diane Kurys, Richard Greenberg, and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.
