Essays
In Things I Have Withheld, Kei Miller’s most personal collection to date, the Caribbean philosopher addresses “his own body and its implications.”
In Things I Have Withheld, Kei Miller’s most personal collection to date, the Caribbean philosopher addresses “his own body and its implications.”
An annotation of Fefe Dobson’s “Stupid Little Love Song” excerpted from the essay collection Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother.
On writing about assisted suicide, taking time to study the consciousness of mushrooms, and freeing herself from the labor of the sentence.
At some point in the late ’70s, when Douglas Crimp and I were art history doctoral students at the Graduate Center, CUNY, he invited me to the ballet.
The archivist and writer’s recently translated triptych fuses autofiction, essay, and criticism to study the complex lives of three female artists in the public eye.
A memoir that challenges stereotypes, celebrates dance, and reflects on loss.
I am in the shower washing off the day’s yard work. Mid-scrub I realize I missed a Black Lives Matter Cleveland rally in support of defunding the police. Relief pours over me.
On disasters, the “perverse incentives” of social media, and writing in catastrophic times.
On the relationship between poetry and social struggle.
In a career spanning over two decades, Wayne Koestenbaum has copped to a lot.
The writer on her new book Brown Album, personal essays, camp as armor, the hyperreal, and designing her own Barbie.
On writing to include others, artists who generate hope, and how constriction can be inventive.
The condition of most of our lives is that of continuous flight, in some manner or form—flight from faulty logic, from place of birth to the place we alight, from situations that no longer serve us, from political precarity—flight, as in rupture.
Stagg’s essays, stories, and profiles on art and fashion speak to the new spaces and meanings created by the Internet.
My mother sits on a coral reef, her gray hair undulating around her head, face blank, her eyes like a fish’s…
The writer on his new book of essays and the state of limbo as a necessary state of artistic life.
The essayist on writing about birds to bridge thematic leaps from fathers to tattoos to cross-continental moves.