
British novelist and short story writer Angela Carter talks to Rosemary Carroll about The Company of Wolves, Neil Jordan’s film adaptation of her short story.

Famed Abstract-Expressionist Joan Mitchell evades questions and ties the interview format into a knot, all the while offering hints at the unapologetic brilliance behind her craft.

Dmitri Volchek interviews Rodion Zaveriyayev on the contributions of Russian conscience and culture on anti-theater. Translated from the Russian by L. Terlitsky.
Yesterday I took a miniature trip with M., back and forth on the Staten Island Ferry. The sky was clear and bright, the day was warm enough to stand on the deck without a sweater.

I: Fata Morgana
For the Greek Thales water is the origin of all, and the earth floats like a bottle bobbing on the sea.
The world gives speech substance and mind (mile) stones
My outer ear looks like a shell, and if you put your ear to it you will hear the Gulf.

Sensible Shoe Thinks About Success
Closes in on the outside chance. Comes up the stairs. A sigh, ice,
Stupid and depraved faces … those who are depraved are interesting in that they are perverse, out of the norm …

Two monochromatic color photographs by Barbara Ess—from the Food for the Moonseries, 1986; and Untitled, 1984–85.

Two mixed media paintings on canvas and burlap by Carl Palazzolo—Robinhood Water (#20), August 1986, Robinhood, Maine; and Viewed by night, viewed by day, 1986.

We took a walk, bus ride, walk, bus ride, walk to an apartment in the middle of Leningrad, up many flights of stairs—no speaking, so the neighbors would not hear a foreign language as we passed their doors.