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Rear Window, Los FelizPhotograph by Claudia Ross. A sign on the dried grass in front of my apartment building named it the Isles of Charm, a label that...
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At Chloë’s Closet SaleThe line outside the Sale of the Century. Photograph by Sara Bosworth. In the high noon heat of the big hot sun, the intersection of...
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Primrose for XLondon buses moving. Licensed under CCO 2.0, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . William Blake once wrote to a friend that he conversed with...
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The Dress Diary of Mrs. Anne Sykes“Anna. Three dresses when in mourning for her mother. 1845.” Photograph by Kate Strasdin. In January 2016 I was given an extraordinary gift....
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Opera WeekMetropolitan Opera House. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , Licensed under CCO 4.0. In Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station , the...
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The Review’s Review: Don Carlo and the Abuse of PowerCardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara, El Greco. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . Don Carlo is the kind of opera that has gone out of...
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The Review’s Review: Emma Bovary at the OperaLucie de Lammermoore. Victor Coindre, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . My first memory of opera is Bugs Bunny or maybe The...
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Faust and the Risk of DesireFaust and Mephistopheles. Painting by Anton Kaulbach, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . I first discovered opera in 1991, when my tenth-grade...
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A Spring Dispatch from the Review’s Poetry EditorIllustration by Na Kim. Sometimes, on the campus of the university where I work, a visiting writer will explain to a captive audience how...
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Americans AbroadRichard and Pat Nixon in China, 1972. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . By the time I saw Nixon in China during its 2011 run at the...
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Making of a Poem: Michael Bazzett on “Autobiography of a Poet”For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking some poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Michael Bazzett’s “...
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Musical HallucinationsSheet music of Don Giovanni. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CCO 3.0. Don Giovanni keeps playing in my head, as if of its...
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Dear MotherThe Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ca. 1880. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . In the second half of the seventies, when I was in my...
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Mozart in MotionYoung Mozart performing for Louis François de Bourbon in Paris in 1766. Gustave Boulanger, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . Opening...
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Movie MathSauvagette, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . I love movie math. I love microrationalizing macroabsurdities, laser-focusing on...
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A Letter from Henry MillerAround the time he published some of his mostly famous works —Tropic of Cancer , Black Spring , and Tropic of Capricorn , to name a few —...
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On ButterfliesJakob Hübner. Mancipium Fugacia argante, 1806. Everything we see is expression, all of nature an image, a language and vibrant hieroglyphic...
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An Egyptian VasePhotograph by Jago Rackham. On the top of our fiction bookshelf is an alabaster vase. Its rim is broken. Inside it is a single dried...
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“The Dead Silence of Goods”: Annie Ernaux and the SuperstoreInterior of the Wal-Mart supercenter in Albany. Photograph by Matt Wade, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CCO 3.0. The first...
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Michael Bazzett, Dobby Gibson, and Sophie Haigney RecommendPete Unseth, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . I don’t usually write to music. I’m too susceptible; I find it can give what I’m...
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Are You Thunder or Lightning?Sixteenth Century Engraved sun and moon image. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. I have always liked categorical statements that are obviously...
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Who Was Robert Plunket?President Harding with pet dog Laddie being photographed in front of the White House. National Photo Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons....
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InertiaMichael Raedecker, solo 2021. Courtesy of the artist. In a novel that she had been trying to read the night before, she’d read the...
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Mapping Africatown: Albert Murray and his HometownMap by Donna Brown for Library of America, with input from Paul Devlin. Based on a map drawn by Albert Murray in the 1950s or 1960s. Circa...
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Divorcée Fiction: On Ursula ParrottRussell Patterson, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire.” Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . I’d never heard of...
